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REPORTING FOR DUTY

iving and working in Afghanistan in the early 2010s, I realised that the image of war had become so commonplace that it had ceased to mean anything. I decided to start a project called War Gardens and went on to interview and photograph more than 150 gardeners in Afghanistan, Gaza, Israel, the West Bank and Ukraine. I found within the interviews so many

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