Jim Lommasson on Exit Wounds: Life After War – Soldiers’ Stories

Hosts Marvin and Angie interview local photograper Jim Lommasson about his latest book, Exit Wounds: Life After War – Soldiers’ Stories. 
Jim Lommasson is a freelance photographer and author living in Portland, Oregon. Lommasson received the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for his first book, Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice & The Will To Survive In American Boxing Gyms. Time Magazine said about Shadow Boxers, “Both up to the minute and timeless, Lommasson’s pictures are also affecting, intricate and sometimes just glorious.” Exit Wounds: Life After War – Soldiers’ Stories is now a book and traveling exhibition about American Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and their lives after their return from war. Lommasson is currently working on a book and traveling exhibition about Iraqi refugees who have fled to the U.S. called, What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization. Lommasson received a Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) Project Grant for What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization. Lommasson is a 2012-2016 Oregon Humanities Conversation Grant Scholar for his public discussion, “Life after War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home.”