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The Next Decade

A man in a hazmat suit brushes over the head of a soldier. Helmet reads 'PTSD'. In the background are mountains and a compound with people looking on.

Ten years into a conflict that had already cost so many military and civilian lives, David Pope correctly foreshadows another deadly legacy that is being created. This sombre portrait from 2012 is a sadly accurate prediction of the lasting trauma that would continue to come home to so many who served there.

- Karen Middleton, guest curator