What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of Civilization

Jim Lommasson is a freelance photographer and author living in Portland, Oregon. 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, Stone Creek Publications. In 2009 Oregon State University Press published Lommasson's Oaks Park Pentimento. Lommasson's 2015 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. The book includes Lommasson's photographs, interviews and photographs by the participants.