The Home Front

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We have passed the 20-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. For the majority of these two decades, we have been at war. In short order, news of these wars vanished from the front-page headlines, eclipsed by pressing issues on the home front.

This series looks at life on the home front but references the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have yet to fully realize the impact of soldiers returning home from a combat zone as they attempt to reintegrate back into society. We will no longer be able to keep the sharp delineation between home front and war front.

The images are shot on the home front and at military at Ft. Drum, New York, training sites or Ft. Polk, Louisiana.

This series, House of One Thousand Eyes, documents the linoleum floors located in the former Stasi Headquarters in Leipzig and Berlin.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the East German citizens stormed the Stasi Headquarters in an effort to prevent the further destruction of personal files. Throughout the post-war period the government kept extensive records on their citizens. The goal of the Stasi Police was to know everything about everyone. At its peak the Stasi Police in East Germany had 97,000 employees. In addition, 173,000 were IM - inofizielle mitarbeiter or unofficial collaborators. Friends, neighbors, co-workers, spouses could potentially be spying on you and providing information to the Stasi.

The methods of spy craft used at that time, surveillance of mail and telephone communications, buttonhole cameras, wiretapping and bugging seem pedestrian to the modern methods available with cell phone technology.