Jim Lommasson

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Gender	Male
Occupation	Freelance Photographer
Location	Portland, Oregon, United States
Introduction	Jim Lommasson is a freelance photographer living in Portland, OR. Lommasson received the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for his first book, "Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice and The Will To Survive In American Boxing Gyms." Lommasson's book "Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan" and exhibition about U.S. Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars was published in 2015. He is an Oregon Humanities Conversation Project Grant recipient for his public discussion "Life after War." Lommasson was awarded a Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant for "What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of Civilization." What We Carried is a collaborative storytelling project with displaced Iraqi and Syrian refugees. What We Carried was exhibited at The Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration in 2019. "Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory." about Holocaust and genocide survivors created with the Illinois Holocaust Museums is traveling to museums in the U.S. "Stories of Survival: Genocide Remembrance and Prevention" was exhibited at The United Nation Headquarters Gallery in NYC Spring 2023.