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.

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.