Photographer Jim Lommasson new exhibit, Exit Wounds – Combat trauma and the trials of homecoming, is featured in the Oregonian

Like many Oregonians, most of what the critically acclaimed photographer knew about the wars two years ago was the daily casualty report, personal tragedies presented as impersonally as a box score. But on long walks through North Portland with his 85-year-old dad, Lommasson started thinking deeply of the men and women fighting.

His father was wounded and won the Bronze Star in the Battle of the Bulge. But only on those walks did the senior Lommasson begin to talk fully about his war, sharing experiences with his son he’d never told anyone. Lommasson, a photographer and oral historian, wrote that it became clear his dad had “done his best to spare me and everyone else the reality of war.”

Opening reception is tonight beginning at six at the New American Art Union