Ben Lowy was recently awarded the Duke Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for his book “Iraq / Perspectives”. The book is being published by Duke University Press in association with CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies and will be launching next week.
Yolanda Cuomo designed the book and William Eggleston, who judged the competition and selected Ben as the winner, writes in the book’s forward:
“These images were practically asking to be in a book together—everything about them—the conception, the subject, the fact that we’re still at war, the way the pictures were taken. Benjamin’s work is an opportunity to see as an American soldier sees when in Iraq—nobody I know of has ever shown that, especially through night vision goggles.”—William Eggleston
