Veterans Book Project

Monica Moses Haller, Assistant Professor, Photography & Moving Images, University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities

Monica Haller (born Minneapolis, MN) works across a variety of mediums, including photography, video, writing, installation and design. she highlights complex, at times volatile activities within environmental and human systems, often through long-term collaborations with individuals or small groups of people. She has a B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies and a M.F.A. in Visual Studies. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and support from the National Endowments for the Arts. She has given talks at venues ranging from Centre Pompidou to the Hennepin County Juvenile Justice Center.

The Veterans Books Project is a library of books authored collaboratively by artist Monica Haller and dozens of people who have been affected by, and have archives of, the current American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In their printed format, the books provide a place or "container" that slows down and materializes the great quantity of ephemeral image files that live on veterans' hard drives and in their heads. Each book re-deploys volatile images with the aim of rearticulating and refashioning memories.