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Kenny Bass

Photography

A Marine’s Disposable War

Disposable-camera photographs made during the 2003 Iraq War, rediscovered more than two decades later and reconsidered as memory, evidence, and art.

This is a developing body of work. The original photographs and their approved digital files are being preserved, printed, and considered together as a coherent photographic archive.

Kenny Bass standing amid rubble and firing an AK toward disabled vehicles inside an Iraqi weapons complex in 2003.
Inside the Iraqi weapons complex, Kenny fires toward a semi-truck and double-decker bus that had been deliberately disabled to prevent their removal, 2003.

First limited edition

Spent

Purchase details pending

A disposable-camera photograph made during Kenny Bass’s 2003 Iraq deployment and rediscovered more than two decades later.

A vast Iraqi desert landscape covered with thousands of spent artillery shell casings beneath a pale blue sky.
Spent, Iraq, 2003.
  • 20 × 30-inch image
  • Edition of 25
  • Signed and numbered
  • $1,100 print-only presentation

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A record made before it was understood as art.

These photographs were made on disposable cameras during military service, preserved for more than twenty years, and revisited only later as a body of work.

The work now is slower: preservation, scanning, printing, sequencing, and writing — deciding what each frame actually holds and how it should be seen.

Additional works will be added here only after their files, captions, and print specifications are ready.

Photography and exhibition inquiries

Galleries, curators, editors, publishers, and collectors are welcome to get in touch about this body of work, including exhibition, publication, and print inquiries.

Contact Kenny about this work