A collaboration between author-filmmaker Laura Browder and photojournalist Sascha Pflaeging, the gallery exhibition of When Janey Comes Marching Home presents a series of approximately 45 large-scale color photographic portraits and oral histories of women combat veterans. The exhibit premiered at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond in September 2008.

Future exhibition dates include shows at Capital One Bank (Richmond, Virginia, Mar 5 - Apr 30, 2009); Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University (Roanoke, Virginia, Feb 18 - Apr 17, 2010); The Women In Military Service For America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Virginia, May 1 - Sep 5, 2010); National Museum of the Marine Corps (Triangle, Virginia, Jul 10 - Oct 9, 2011). Check back for additional date and cities.

For more information about hosting the exhibition, please contact info@whenjaneycomeshome.com.

 

  

 

 


PRESS FOR THE EXHIBIT

The Richmond Times
 “Several women showed up for the interview with their babies, and Browder was struck by the ease of which some of them compartmentalized motherhood.”

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The Virginia Quarterly Review
 “...these soldiers and veterans—will unsettle our fixed ideas about Americans at war and add dimension to the often flawed or fragmentary pop culture depictions of women in the military: as novelties, but not as real soldiers.”

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InRich.com
 “They speak openly about motherhood, sexual harassment, day-to-day life "outside the wire" in Baghdad and the pressure to continually prove themselves in an arena that traditionally has been a male preserve.”

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Army News
 “The exhibition, entitled "When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans," is a series of large-scale photographic portraits accompanied by oral histories of American female military members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

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ActuPhoto.com
 “Many of these women have expressed how important they think it is for the American public to understand the experiences of women fighting in Iraq.”

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Spectrum
 “She decided she wanted to learn more about the lives of those females serving in the military today — women whose stories, she believed, had not been told. The project she subsequently embarked upon shines a light on these women with uncommon clarity.”

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Art Papers
 “Neutrality sounds like a virtue: an equanimity promising fairness, lucidity, and reliability. Neutrality also contradicts subjectivity: an impenetrability suggesting a refusal to engage or to show one's hand.”

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ZDF
 “Mehr als 200.000 Frauen kämpfen in der US-Armee. Sie begegnen im Einsatz oft auch ganz anderen Gefahren aus den eigenen Reihen – viele wurden von ihren Kameraden sexuell belästigt und vergewaltigt.”

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Frankfurter Rundschau
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Salzburger Nachrichten
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Roanoke.com
 “A Richmond writer and photojournalist team set out to document the realities of military life for female veterans.”

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POV: Regarding War
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BBC World News America
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BBC.com
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Roanoke Star-Sentinel
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With special thanks to: David Bearinger from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; James Chambliss, Steven Danish, Tom Gresham, Robert Holsworth, and Terry Oggel from VCU; Ted Genoways and Waldo Jaquith from the Virginia Quarterly Review; project participants Lisa Harmon, Constance Heinz, Jenny Holbert, and Debra Fulk; public affairs officers Sarah McCleary and Jamie Rogers from Fort Lee; Louise Ware and Conaway B. Haskins III from the office of Senator Jim Webb; Vincent Burgess and Anne Atkins from the Virginia Department of Veterans Services; Reggie Gordon and Bill Harrison from the Greater Richmond Chapter of the American Red Cross; Embowles Locker Alsop and Jane Helfrich from the Junior League of Richmond; transcribers Leigh Gutches and Patty Green; Julie Pochron and Pochron Studios, Brooklyn; Joseph Johnson and Ginger Kilgour from Corporate & Museum Frame; Michael Lease, Sarah Kim, Carolyn Burleigh, Jeremy Brecher, Betsy Brinson, Allan Rosenbaum, and Melissa Pflaeging.