JESSICA HINES: My Brother's War

JESSICA HINES: My Brother's WarMy Brothers War tells the story of a soldier, Gary Hines, and his younger sisters search to understand the circumstances surrounding his life with Post Traumatic Stress and his untimely death by his own hand ten years after returning home from war. Garys letters, photographs, and his personal effects found in a small box, served as guides to Hines who travelled twice to Viet Nam, attended a reunion of his comrades, called army buddies decades after

The result is a true celebration of portrait taking – ranging from elaborate studio sets reminiscent of the heyday of the Victorian studio photographer

and looking out to the horizons and skies

she scoured the photographs

Berris moved from London to Sheffield at the end of 1988 to work on the commission for Untitled Gallery

We were all lonely together

From 1887 onwards

Romania and the United Kingdom

The photographs and the design of the book emphasize the inherent tension in the Commission’s aim to commemorate the individual through the uniform treatment of the many

messages left on the street

on its back

The Traveller

landscape and memory combine as a means of seeing and documenting the world