War is Only Half the Story: Ten Years of the Aftermath Project

Angél 14, and Daniel (right), 16, members of the ELN Che Guevara Front pose for a picture at their camp in Choc. The Che Guevara front operates on the Pacific coast of Colombia patrolling important corridors to allow the export of cocaine to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexico. February 17, 2014. © Juan Arredondo from ‘War Is Only Half The Story’, The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing

This woman, pictured with her husband, was raped by several men. She said, “When my husband returned home, I told everything to him. He did not react, did not say a word and took me to the hospital. I believed that he was angry with me. I was suddenly afraid that he would abandon me. But instead, he took me to the police and encouraged me to tell everything.” © Gwenn Dubourthoumieu from ‘War Is Only Half The Story’, The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing

U.S. Marine Lcpl. Damon "Commie" Connell age 20 after a patrol in Garmsir District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan at Forward Operating Base Apache North. Damon is from Las Vegas NV and this is his first tour of Afghanistan. © Louie Palu/ZUMA Press from ‘War Is Only Half The Story’, The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing

An unguided missile launching mount, left in an Orthodox church destroyed during the war. Anukhva, Abkhazia. 2013. © Olga Ingurazova from ‘War Is Only Half The Story’, The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing

Fusion Festival, Larz, Former Rechlin-Larz military airfield1933 - 1945: Main testing ground of the Third Reich’s Luftwaffe1945 - 1993: Used by the 19th Fighter Bomber Regiment West of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. © Isabel Kiesewetter from ‘War Is Only Half The Story’, The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing

Horse races at the Oglala Lakota Nation Pow Wow, Pine Ridge Reservation. Lakotas celebrate traditional life throughout late summer with Sun Dances, Pow Wows, and horse races across the reservation. Pine Ridge sits in the poorest region of America, but is nonetheless a part of the country that is rich with culture and traditional life. © Danny Wilcox Frazier from ‘War Is Only Half The Story’, The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing

Chapter 4, Untitled #2, The Beginning. I was standing on my balcony one evening in Saigon when I decided to make this photograph. The photograph I held was taken by Gary of what appears to be smoke from a bomb blast. This is but one of the mysteries surrounding Gary’s photographs and experiences during the war. © Jessica Hines from ‘War Is Only Half The Story’, The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing

Luis Lopez Cemetery, Socorro County, New Mexico. Luis Lopez is a town in one of four counties being studied for health impacts resulting from radiation fallout from the 1945 Trinity Atomic test. Unlike residents of Nevada and Utah, those in New Mexico have never been acknowledged or covered under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. April 2, 2016. © Nina Berman from ‘War Is Only Half The Story’, The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing

Sisters, Kaspi, 2005. © Natela Grigalashvili from ‘War Is Only Half The Story’, The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing

Montgomery, Alabama, 2011. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of President Jefferson Davis, Civil War re-enactors hold a rally in downtown Montgomery, the first capitol of the Confederacy. These women, waiting for the rally to begin, are sitting on a park bench where Rosa Parks boarded the city bus she was arrested on in 1955. © Andrew Lichtenstein from ‘War Is Only Half The Story’, The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing

“The end of war does not mean peace. It is simply the end of death and destruction. Every story of war includes a chapter that almost always goes untold – the story of the aftermath, which day by day becomes the prologue of the future.”
– Sara Terry / Founder, The Aftermath Project

War is Only Half the Story, published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, looks back on ten years of The Aftermath Project. Founded in 2008 by Sara Terry, The Aftermath Project is a photography program and grant that supports post-conflict storytelling. The book features the work of more than 50 photographers from 15 countries, all of whom have been winners and finalists of The Aftermath Project’s annual grant competition.

Recipients of the award include acclaimed photojournalists Nina Berman, Andrea Bruce, Jim Goldberg, Stanley Greene, Jessica Hines and Danny Wilcox Frazier. Their work addresses the other half of of conflict, “the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace,” states the press release.

War is Only Half the Story includes an introduction by Sara Terry, two poems by Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska and texts by photographer Donald Weber and literary critic and translator Clare Cavanagh.

In his essay, “What Remains,” Weber writes,”Photography’s allure is its spectral ability to provide a creative retrieval of history of past encounters, and offer a counter-testimonial to the historical narratives into which they had previously been written … For ten years now, The Aftermath Project has recognized this question of the remainder, and has provided a necessary forum for culture and creativity to allow society to better understand historical trauma.”