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Kenny Bass

Creative Strategist & Builder Marine combat veteran

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I turn lived experience into stories, learning and accessible digital experiences.

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Spent: a field of spent casings stretches toward the horizon beneath a pale sky in Iraq.
Spent / 2003 · photograph by Kenny BassA Marine’s Disposable War / 15 of 15

Experience becomes something useful.

Real needs shape stories, learning experiences and digital tools.

Creative strategy + buildingA website built around real needs.See the decisions Speaking + educationYour Work. Your Tools. Your AI.Explore the program Access + interpretationPhotographs explored through description, context and memory.Try the companion

One disposable camera / Iraq, 2003

The record that remained.

Fifteen photographs from one camera, featuring the award-winning photograph Spent.

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West of Eden: an abandoned tank in grass beside a palm tree, with a road in the foreground in Iraq.
West of Eden · 2003Photograph by Kenny Bass

Speaking / Advisory

From Barriers to Bridges.

Talks and workshops on rebuilding, reducing barriers and turning lived experience into practical next steps.

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Kenny Bass holding a microphone outdoors, with Atlas resting at his feet and an honor guard behind him.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation / Veterans Day, 2016
A Marine’s Disposable War photobook cover featuring the photograph West of Eden.
A Marine’s Disposable War / Photobook

On the way to print

Stories taking shape.

A short memoir, a photographic record and a children’s story about working dogs. Three different ways of carrying an experience beyond the moment.

All three await publication. No publication dates have been announced.

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Independent work / Shared possibility

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Books, photographs, veteran stories and more ways into them. Explore how you can support what comes next.

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