Paul Seawright Volunteer

Made at the locations of military recruitment offices across Texas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, these new works comment not just on the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the battle to recruit new soldiers, but reveal a fractured American landscape littered with thrift stores and pawn shops.

The military volunteer force was created in 1973 when the draft was abolished following the Vietnam war. Now recruiters target students, immigrants (who can secure fast track resident status under new legislation) and the unemployed. Despite the certainty that new recruits will go to war, the military met its recruitment targets for the first time last year.