Global thank you

A huge thank you to those who are reading these amazing stories, in the past 24 hours from Kazakhstan, Taiwan, USA, China, Canada, UK, Pakistan, Brazil, Spain, Israel and Germany.  Please keep reading and sharing.

Frieze Magazine Blog

For a recent summary of the Afghan Diary Room project published in Frieze Magazine please see:

blog.frieze.com/afghanistan-a-war-artists-blog/

Captain Fame Taylor

Captain Fame Taylor with the Irish Guards at Khar Nikah

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On the ground in Afghanistan I was surprised to find Afghan and British soldiers clearing Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) from deserted Afghan villages in order to make them safe from insurgent bombes.  Once the IEDs had been cleared families were being moved back into their homes.  Here a paratrooper describes this process and the casualties which resulted.  Names have been edited out in line with UK military policy of not disclosing the names of the injured.  Below is an image of the village,

Khar Nikah

Here an Irish Guardsman writes his story of this conflict in between patrols.  I noticed that the soldiers wrote their stories with the same intensity with which they fought.

Diary Room, Patrol Base Kalang

This was the first of the three Diary Rooms I created on the front line in Helmand.  It was inside a shipping container next to the helicopter landing site in one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan.

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A soldier writes a comparison between what he sees in Afghanistan and life back home and how seeing a father and son in a field reminds him of making a living working with his Dad "but the only battle we had was the one my mother had to fight off cancer".