Battlelands

Spanning a new singlechannel film and still photography the project sees Koizumi work for the first time with nonJapanese subjects engaging United States veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars Five veterans recount traumatic experiences during these past military conflicts while wearing bodycams that record images of their current domestic spaces and landscapes in the US Koizumi seeks to capture banal and ordinary images from his subjects daily lives attempting to construct another kind of image of war The work articulates how traumatic memories of conflict impact the everyday for these individuals