Craig Walker of The Denver Post

Source: (Craig Walker, The Denver Post – December 29, 2011)

Photographer, Craig F. Walker presents a series of photos taken in December of 2011. The collection focuses on a home-coming retired soldier named Brian Scott Ostrom from the Iraq War. In the photo above is one of the photos of Walker’s series about Scott. This photo was taken after Scott punched through the wall of his apartment building and was panicking. At this moment, Scott is fighting his PTSD from the war. He claims that he wasn’t expecting that he would survive the war. Now, he is in a constant state of hypervigilance and he feels that “..if I get attacked, I’m going to kill”. Through this collection, Walker aims to not only highlight the issue of retired soldiers and their PTSD but also hopes that the audience has a “better grasp [of] an [national] issue” and that this collection will raise awareness to mental illnesses.

Link: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/craig-f-walker-0