THE HISTORY
The Aftermath Project is an outcome of photographer and writer Sara Terry’s five-year-long project, “Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace,” about the aftermath of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Hercegovina. She completed her work in 2005, convinced that a broader public understanding and discussion of aftermath issues was crucial in a world where the media regularly covers war, but rarely covers the stories that follow the aftermath of violence and destruction. Sara founded The Aftermath Project as a way to help photographers tell these crucial stories.
AUCTIONS
To fund its first year of grants, The Aftermath Project held auctions in Los Angeles at the Michael Dawson Gallery, at Peer Gallery in New York, and at Mets & Schilt in Amsterdam. In an incredible show of support, more than 200 images were donated by documentary and fine art photographers from around the world, including images from some of the best-known photographers working in the field today. Because these photographers were an integral part of the founding of The Aftermath Project, the auction images remain online as part of our history. Some photos are still available. To view the auction images, click here. To inquire about a specific image, please contact us.
WHO WE ARE
Sara Terry
Founder and Director
A former award-winning staff correspondent for the Christian
Science Monitor and magazine freelance writer, Sara Terry made a
mid-career transition into photojournalism and documentary photography
in the late 1990s. Her long-term project about the aftermath of war in
Bosnia -- "Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace" -- was published
in
September 2005 by Channel Photographics and was named as one of the
best photo books of the year by Photo District News.
Her work has been been widely published and exhibited in such venues as the United Nations, the Moving Walls exhibition at the Open Society Institute in New York, the Museum of Photography in Antwerp, and the Leica Gallery in Solms, Germany. Her photos are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and in many private collections.
In 2005, she received a prestigious Alicia Patterson Fellowship to continue her work in Bosnia. In 2003, she was a finalist for the Alexia Foundation grant, for the same body of work. She is currently working on another aftermath project, "Forgivness and Conflict: Lessons from Africa," which explores traditional practices of truth-telling and forgiveness in post-conflict African countries.
She has been recognized for her work in founding and building the Aftermath Project, with the 2008 Lucies Humanitarian Award, and the 2007 Rising Star Award from the Griffin Museum of Photography.
THE BOARD
Jeff Jacobson
Photographer
Nancy Foley
Former Executive Director, The Santa Fe Center for Photography
Alan Webber
Author, Co-Founder, Fast Company magazine
Heidi Ingwerson-Thompson
Freelance Strategy Consultant
Los Angeles, CA
SPECIAL ADVISORS
Arthur Ollman
Former Director, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Kent Kobersteen
Former Director of Photography, National Geographic
Roy Flukinger
Senior Curator, Ransom Center for the Humanities, University of Texas
James Crump
Curator of Photography, Cincinnati Museum of Art
PROGRAM SUPPORT
We gratefully acknowledge Open Society Institute and the Compton Foundation, which have supported the Aftermath Project grants and other program activities.
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Raphael Russo and Jane Danek
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP
New York, NY
Legal counsel to the Aftermath Project
