Elizabeth Herman's Post-Conflict Photography

The photography of IGL alum, Elizabeth Herman, was featured on the New York Times photography blog, Lens.

Time, pitilessly lurching forward, has a way of altering memory.

And a memory can be a powerful thing. Tweaked, reinterpreted, repackaged — in a war-ravaged country, it’s a political tool, to be sold back to people seeking stability, seeking answers. Or, it could be a means to empowerment, a way to define one’s course and actions across a lifetime.

Elizabeth D. Herman in her series “A Woman’s War,” examines memory’s relationship to the present, but also gives a voice to those often pigeonholed in the story of war: women. Ms. Herman understood that the world was messier, that women had roles that went beyond either caregiver or victim.