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“'I've fought in two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and covered two others as a journalist, in Syria and Ukraine.!
Basetrack: Conversation with Teru Kuwayama
The following first appeared inAperture magazine #214 Spring 2014.
Born and raised in New York to a Japanese father and an Irish-American mother, Kuwayama built his career as a photojournalist, spending much of.
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Balazs Gardi, Afghan detainee at Patrol Base Talibjan, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, November 7, 2010
In 2010, after many years of covering the war in Afghanistan, freelance photojournalist Teru Kuwayama received an invitation to embed with the First Battalion of the Eighth Marine Regiment in Helmand Province.
Although it was only the start of the counterinsurgency campaign, it was the tenth year of a long and costly war that carried on at a far remove of the daily lives of Americans in the United States. Along with four other photographers, Balazs Gardi, Tivadar Domaniczky, Omar Mullick, and Rita Leistner, Kuwayama decided to approach the embed differently, and started Basetrack, a social-media reporting project conceived to connect Marines and their families and to target the social network—friends, family, and online presence—su