OSI-Baltimore Exhibit Features Portraits of Injured Iraq War Veterans

December 4, 2006

The Open Society Institute–Baltimore presents "Purple Hearts," portraits of Iraq war veterans who sustained injuries in combat. The photographs, by Nina Berman, are part of the OSI documentary photography exhibit Moving Walls 10.

The names of the American soldiers who have been killed in Iraq are printed in the newspaper almost every day, but the wounded are often sent home without notice, left to struggle quietly with a loss of limb or painful disfigurement. By showing us the human cost of war on an intimate scale, Berman’s portraits of injured American soldiers undermine any illusion that war is quick and bloodless.

Dates

December 4, 2006–January 21, 2007

Opening Reception
December 4, 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Join Artists for Social Change, a University Maryland, Baltimore County, student group, in conversation about the photographs. Free and open to the public.

Location and Hours

Commons Gallery
University Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Catonsville, MD

For directions, see www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/directions.html.

Commons Gallery Hours:
Monday to Friday, 7:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.

Art on Purpose, a nonprofit organization that uses art to bring people together around issues and ideas, coordinates Moving Walls for OSI-Baltimore.