Inspired by the clever, humorous and often dark messages many soldiers carved into Zippo lighters during the Vietnam war, photographer Henry Hargreaves recently recreated the same reoccurring themes with the modern equivalent of necessity—cell phones. Using situational props and heavy vignetting, the photographic series depicts engraved cell phones as if found in the pockets of uniforms in Afghanistan and Iraq today, hinting at how little …
Henry Hargreaves’ Military Messages
