In the Light of Darkness

ClickontheGooglePreviewimageabovetoreadsomepagesofthisbook!Attheageof23,immediatelyfollowingtheTwinTowerattacks,KateBrooksmovedtoPakistantophotographtheimpactoftheU.S.foreignpolicyintheregion.Itwasthestartofa10yearodysseycoveringworldchangingevents,fromthehuntforOsamabinLadeninthemountainsofToraBoraandtheAmericaninvasionofIraq,toLebanon'sdisenfranchisedPalestinianpopulationandthecountry'spowerstruggleswithSyriaandIsrael,theprotestsinEgypt'sTahrirSquareandthebeginningofthewarinLibya.IntheLIghtofDarknessinterweavesaselectionofthoseimageswithaseriesofpersonalessayschroniclingBrooks'ownjourneyasayoungwoman,from9-11totheArabSpringuprisingsofearly2011.Herimagescapturetheharshbeautyandpoignantpainofaregionmiredinconflictwhileherwordstraceapersonalnarrativeofloss--offriends,ofcolleaguesandofinnocence.KateBrooks'photographshavebeenpublishedinTIME,Newsweek,TheNewYorker,Smithsonian,TheAtlantic,TheWallStreetJournalandTheNewYorkTimes.AretrospectiveofherworkwasonexhibitattheSoutheastMuseumofPhotographyin2011--www.smponline.orgorwww.katebrooks.com.Ms.BrookshasbeentherecipientofnumerousawardsandherphotographshavebeenexhibitedintheU.S.,Europe,andtheMiddleEast.