When Birmingham photographer Jeffrey Rease started the Portraits of Honor project to showcase World War II veterans, he thought he'd just photograph veterans in Alabama. Now, Rease says he's photographed about 310 veterans worldwide. More: 22Alabamians
to showcase pictures of World War II veterans, continued to make amazing progress in 2022 as he tracked down living veterans.
Most of the veterans he takes pictures of are in their 90s, some older than 100. As of Veterans Day in 2021, he had taken portraits of 217 World War II veterans. Approaching the end of 2022, Rease said that he was at about 310 veterans photographed. When he first started the photography project, he thought it would be veterans living in Alabama. “I thought it would just be local,” he said.
Since he started in April 2019 with a portrait of Marine Colonel Carl Cooper of Vestavia Hills, dozens of the portrait subjects have died. That has brought even more urgency to the project.
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