photo: basetrack's photostream/flickr

Charles McFarlane alerted us to these pictures of makeshift chairs. They were taken by a reporter embedded with Marines deployed in Afghanistan in 2010, using his iPhone. Improvised out of wreckage, in a war zone, the chairs have a moving and strangely beautiful sculptural quality; they force us to imagine the stories behind them.

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photo: basetrack's photostream/flickr

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photo: basetrack's photostream/flickr

…check out more images at basetrack’s photostream on flickr.

Thanks Charles!

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09.26.11 | in furniture, outside, paths + processes, people, sightings |
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