Shooting Ghosts Quotes

“Sometimes, it seems, even a war photographer needs his mummy.”
― Thomas J. Brennan, Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War

“The mind, like the eye, offers a given perspective, but we can develop how it views things and learn how to process the world anew.”
― Thomas J. Brennan, Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War

“a country with a well-educated middle class and a statuesque, catwalk-ready Facebook generation that embraces African and American fashions to create an elegant and athletic style of bling and beauty.”
― Thomas J. Brennan, Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War

“And buried in it is Department of Defense Post Deployment Health Assessment (Form 2796), which every member of the U.S.”
― Thomas J. Brennan, Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War

“My sense of self hinges upon the belief that what I do matters. That belief has compelled me to venture far from home life, and to immerse myself in the lives of strangers in the hope that my work will have an impact and connect people in some intangible way, that I can contribute some greater good.”
― Finbarr O'Reilly, Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War

“The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.”
― Thomas J. Brennan, Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War