Elizabeth D. Herman is based in Brooklyn, New York as a freelance photographer and researcher. She recently returned from a year in Bangladesh as a Fulbright Fellow, researching how politics influence the writing of national histories in textbooks. While there, she continued work on a long-term documentary project, “A Woman’s War,” exploring the experiences of female combatants both during and after conflict. In addition to Bangladesh, she has completed chapters of the work on female members of the North Vietnamese Army in Vietnam, female revolutionaries in Egypt, and is currently working in the US on American female veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Her work has been exhibited in a number of group shows at Tufts, as well as at a solo show at Shadhona Studios in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR’s All Things Considered, GlobalPost, The Daily Beast/Newsweek, the Independent (Bangladesh), Warscapes, and FotoVisura.

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