Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict

Globalsecurity.org lists forty conflicts—uprisings and insurgencies, civil wars, and occupations—currently playing out around the world. Lori Grinker has spent the past fifteen years portraying their human costs, traveling among some thirty countries to document both the physical carnage and the psychological damage. The result is a kind of perverse twist on the legendary Family of Man exhibition from the 50s: Instead of promoting a universal understanding of shared humanity, it conveys the universality of human conflict. Portrayed through both large-scale color photographs and interviews, Grinker’s veterans include a British man still unable to talk about fighting in Korea, a female Bangladeshi student who fought as a man in the early 70s, and a Sri Lankan girl who was promised karate lessons if she joined up with the Tamil Tigers. 165 13th Ave, N.E., Minneapolis; 612-824-5500; www.mncp.org