8x10.vet

veteran - n. A person who has served in the armed forces.

That’s simple enough. As is the premise behind this project. The images you see here are of veterans, United States veterans to be exact, all taken using 8x10 black and white film.

The project is open to veterans of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard. It is free. Totally, 100% a gift of thanks and of remembrance. We are losing over 1000 World War II vets a day. Tallies for other periods are harder to come by (one estimate indicates that only one third of Vietnam vets remain alive).

So this project is about a permanent record, one at the individual level. Not a memorial or a statue, but one that in forty or fifty years the negative will still exist, and a new print can be made for some descendant that never even met the subject of the photo.

Every vet that sits for a photo will receive an 8x10 contact print and a cleaned digital copy they may reproduce as much as they like.