We Are the Not-Dead

Filmmaker Lalange Snow photographed and interviewed 14 members of 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland before they were sent to Afghanistan, after three months’ service, and mere days after coming back home from their deployment.

The series, titled “We Are The Not Dead,” is meant to expose how war changes a person, both psychologically and physically, the trauma literally written on their faces.

War changes people, and the soldiers’ faces show a glimpse of the toll that fighting in Afghanistan takes on the troops.

they are still human. Others appear to be fully broken; they are displaced.

Interviews with the soldiers provide a deeper glimpse at how the war changes people:

Private Chris MacGregor, 24

11th March, Edinburgh: “Obviously I’ll miss family but other than that I am going to miss my dogs more than anything. They are my destresser and keep me sane. I think I’ll miss TV too, though. I try not to think about the worst-case scenario.”

Reprinted with permission from Collective Evolution.

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