My Brother's War
My Brother’s War tells the story of a soldier, Gary Hines, and his younger sister’s search to understand the circumstances surrounding his life with Post Traumatic Stress -- and his untimely death by his own hand ten years after returning home from the Vietnam war.
This work is the often untold story of loss, grief, hope, healing, love, and living in the aftermath of war—both for a veteran and for his family and friends. My Brother’s War makes reference to families worldwide that have lost and are presently losing loved ones to war. Hines’ work seeks to inspire, as the only alternative,
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Biography
Artist, author, and storyteller Jessica Hines, uses the camera’s inherent quality as a recording device to explore illusion and to suggest truths that underlie the visible world. At the core of Hines’ work lies an inquisitive nature inspired by personal memory, experience and the unconscious mind. Hines' work has been exhibited extensively in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
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Awards
Awarded artist's residencies in both New Zealand: Unitec New Zealand Mãori: Te Whare Wãnanga o Wairaka, and in Norway: Sunnhordland Museum, Halsnøy Kloster, Hardangerfjord at Kvinnherad in Vestland, Norway.
Published in The New Yorker magazine, The Nation, reviewed in the New York Times, The Washington Post, 1854: British Journal of Photography.
Grand Prize at LensCulture, First Place at Kuala Lumpur International PhotoAwards, 3x winner at Critical Mass, Humanitarian Documentary Photographer of the Year awarded by Philip Brookman, 1st Prize Winner Fine Art Portfolio in Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Jacob Riis Award, The Kolga Award for Best Experimental Photography, Interviewed by American journalist, Marc Leepson for "Dispatches" - The VVA Veteran online video series, Interviewed by David Brommer for Depth of Field: Personal Photography Projects that Matter, Depth of Field (B&H) Women in Photography Panel, Interviewed 2x on ABC tv, "Good Morning Washington" by journalist/anchor Melanie Hastings for "My Brother's War", Winner First Place Fine Art + Book Award winner: People's Choice "PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Purchase Award Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Purchase Brooklyn Museum, VII Interactive, The Aftermath Project Lecture Series: Conversations with Grant Winners About Their Winning Work - interview by Sara Terry, My Brother's War monograph published by Dewis Lewis Publishing, London.
