Category: Civil Wars

Along a muddy woodland track in eastern Bosnia, armed men in heavy coats and wool caps stand over rows of bodies laid out on the ground, their uniforms and clothing stained with earth. Bare trees and a pale winter sky frame the scene, while onlookers linger at the edge of the path as if unsure…

Urgency hangs in the air as a group of women moves alongside a UN armoured personnel carrier, using its bulky frame as a moving wall while they cross Sarajevo’s infamous “Sniper Alley” during the siege. The street is wide and exposed, the kind of open corridor that offers little shelter, while the vehicle’s angled armour…

Between two long rows of railway carriages, a small boy folds into himself, arms crossed up to his face as if the camera’s gaze is one more thing to endure. The tracks and gravel corridor stretch away behind him, turning the narrow space into a makeshift street where the usual markers of home—front doors, gardens,…

Laughter breaks through the hard geometry of a battered streetscape as a teenage girl leans against a corner wall, mid-conversation, her posture relaxed despite the tension implied by the moment. Beside her, a young Bosnian fighter stands with an AK‑47 slung across his back, boots planted on the pavement as if he has only stepped…

An elderly man lifts his shirt to reveal a pronounced, puckered scar across his stomach—an intimate, wordless testimony to a shrapnel wound from a mortar shell. The frame focuses on his hands and torso rather than his face, turning the body itself into a historical document. Creased clothing, weathered skin, and the careful gesture of…

John L. Burns sits outside a plain wooden building in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, his posture heavy with fatigue and resolve. A long gun is propped at his side, while crutches frame him as both support and statement, turning the porch into a small stage for Civil War memory. The composition is spare—weathered boards, a window, a…

Leaning with practiced ease against a massive naval gun, a young powder boy stands on the deck of the U.S.S. New Hampshire off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860. His sailor’s cap and simple uniform contrast sharply with the heavy machinery around him: thick coils of rope, sturdy wooden fittings, and the dark,…

Framed by the ornate border of an early portrait, Helen L. Gilson meets the viewer with a steady, direct gaze that feels both intimate and resolute. Her bonnet frames a calm face, while the patterned shawl draped over her shoulders adds texture and warmth to the otherwise plain studio backdrop. The careful pose and soft…

Harriet E. Preston Grogan stands in a quiet studio setting, her hands resting on the back of a tufted chair as she faces the camera with a steady, unsentimental gaze. The formal dress, center-parted hair, and restrained pose speak to the visual language of mid-19th-century portraiture, when a single photograph might serve as a family…

A cluster of Union naval officers pose with practiced stillness on the low, armored deck of a Monitor-class warship in 1863, their dark uniforms and caps set against the hard geometry of iron plating. Behind them rises the ship’s turret, its riveted sides and shaded top giving the scene a distinctly industrial silhouette—less like a…