Healing Ways

Boston / Cambridge, MA · Chicago, IL, United States2026

This is a long-term photojournalism project that explores and documents the healing journeys of U.S. veterans living with PTSD, as well as the organizers who support them. It combines photojournalism, new documentary photography, and documentary photography.

Figures 1–4 feature Billy Jack, born in 1950. He served as a military police officer beginning in 1970 and later served in the Vietnam War. He previously experienced severe PTSD and has now almost fully recovered. According to his account, his earlier service records were destroyed in a fire. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Photographed from September to November 2026 in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Chicago, Illinois, United States.