“The object of Bruce Connew’s book is at once about being a witness to human beastliness, being a photographer and being Bruce Connew. Connew is a photojournalist and teller of tales. This is his record of time spent looking and thinking about what has been seen and what it might mean. Through a process I can only describe as an unfurling or unravelling, this war in Burma becomes a metaphor for Connew’s own life. When I had finished reading (the pictures and words), this book reminded me how attentive photographers need be, and how tenacious. >>
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