I know this isn’t work by a Middle East photographer, but I stumbled across Nina Berman‘s photographs recently and found them striking. She has an Afghanistan series, “Under Taliban,” (which raises all the usual questions about photographing women in burkas–is she exoticizing? or recording reality?). But more strikingly, she has a series of incredibly disturbing photos of US soldiers back from Iraq and Afghanistan with very serious injuries. The “Marine Wedding” series–which shows the wedding of a young marine whose face was basically blown off–has won her particular attention. It shows the price some American are paying for this war in a way that we usually avoid doing.