UNTITLED (Iraq, 2006)
‘War is shit,’ said an anonymous S.A.S. officer once, ‘and anyone who says differently hasn’t been close enough to it.’ With plenty of experience in photographing in war zones, Jeroen Kramer knows how true that statement is. ‘I portrayed war like something in a Hollywood film,’ he says. ‘I regret that now.’ In an attempt to capture something of the sentiments that battle releases in soldiers, Kramer photographed the graffiti that they leave behind on the walls of their toilets.
