Snapshots Sent Home

“... an intimate, finely-written memoir about the truths and realities shared by soldiers everywhere ... devastatingly moving ...”
—Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer, The New Yorker; author of Che Guevara and The Fall of Baghdad

US combat veteran and photographer JT Blatty journeyed to Ukraine in 2018 to capture oral history and portraits of Donbas volunteer soldiers. In frontline bunkers and Kyiv flats, her story began to blend with theirs in a universal bond of combat veterans, compelling her to stay as a new war began.

“... powerful, engaging narrative ... a sense of place and people that is usually only arrived at by being there ..."
—Alexa Dilworth, independent writer and editor; former publishing director and senior editor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University