Claire Felicie: Mark | Friend of Photography

"Markings", a series of black-and-white portrait photographs taken by Dutch female photographer Claire Felicie, documents marines before, during, and after the Afghanistan war. In the photographs, faces once brimming with youth appear increasingly aged by war and the passage of time. Clear and bright eyes, having seen the dust of battlefields, become dry and inscrutable. The spirited youths rein in their radiant smiles when faced with the most brutal reality—war. As a result, they become melancholic and silent.