A friend recently sent me this fine posting about Battlesight from the blog of the Troy Record's arts editor. How eloquently Bob relates his experience of viewing the exhibit:
There is an eerie beauty about the photographs individually and collectively. While I found myself being hypnotized by certain images - especially the 2007 photograph by Balazs Gardi which shows an Afghan man holding a wounded child - when I stood in the middle of the gallery and slowly turned 360-degrees I became immersed in the whole to the degree it felt like an out-of-body experience. The circle transported me not to Iraq or Afghanistan but to a surreal world where pain, fear and suffering was the norm. This place is called war.
The rest of the post is here. (Scroll down the right sidebar there to the list of past postings.)
Battlesight is on exhibit through December 19 at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy.
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