Modern Warfare

This is my privileged experience of a war. I’ve become a proxy figure on reconnaissance free from any risk. My experience is perfectly utopian in its’ design. Simply good vs. Bad, America vs. Evil, us vs. them--get in & get out.

My photographs are of war video games – our society’s ideal virtual landscape of conflict. This is a constructed narrative of a war broken down to its simulated moments of consequence inside the game. The images reveal just how close these constructed sources of entertainment are to becoming a representation of the inhumanity of American war.

-Neil Contractor