Jim Lommasson
Artist Statement
Black Lives Matter.
Artist Bio
Jim Lommasson is a freelance photographer and author living in Portland, OR. Lommasson received the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for his first book, "Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice and The Will To Survive In American Boxing Gyms." Lommasson's book "Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan" and traveling exhibition is about American Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and their lives after their return from war. Lommasson “What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization." is an ongoing collaborative storytelling project with displaced Iraqi and Syrian refugees.
