Presentations Sheds Light on War-Torn East

Visiting Assistant Professor Cheryl Hatch and JR Ancheta presented “Generations of War: From Africa to Afghanistan” at the “Documents of War: the ethics and challenges of visual storytelling” conference at Allegheny College, March 8-9. Professor Hatch showed her photographs from a decade covering conflict in the Middle East and Africa. Professor Hatch’s former student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Ancheta showed images from their long-term project documenting soldiers with the 1/25 Stryker Brigade Combat Team at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, including an embed with the brigade’s 1st Battalion 5th Infantry Regiment in the Horn of Panjawai’i in southern Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, in the winter of 2011-2012. Professor Hatch’s work can be viewed at https://isisphotos.com.