Afghanistan changed the way I photograph people. I remember the mountains around Bagram, the pace of the work, and how quickly exhaustion became part of the landscape.

Since then, I’ve photographed service members in training, on deployment, in the field, and in the stretches between assignments. I’m drawn to the parts of military life that are easy to overlook: concentration, fatigue, humor, routine, and the expressions that surface when no one is thinking about the camera.

I’m less interested in making military service look dramatic than I am in showing what it actually looks and feels like.

That is what I want this work to do. Show the people inside the uniform without turning them into symbols.