"It suggests that there's much more than just: Oh, they're all super evil Storm Troopers and they just want to kill everybody," Callahan said. That opens the door to the possibility that there are other troopers in the ranks who may not like their leaders. He was fascinated with how the latest "Star Wars" movie "The Force Awakens" spent nearly an hour humanizing a Storm Trooper named Finn, who turns against the First Order. But instead of the light and dark sides of the force, Callahan saw the Clone Troopers and Storm Troopers in shades of gray. The "Star Wars" movies are told from the perspectives of the heroes, so the movies force viewers to pick a side, Callahan said. And I think that's just something that would contribute to the project because in a way, that's what I'm doing with Galactic Warfighters: Forcing people to think about conflict in a different way." "It really drove the discussion about the Vietnam War. It's one of the few images that's changed public opinion of conflict. "It stops you in your tracks and it forces you to explore things further. "It's one of the most arresting images I've ever seen," Callahan said. Soon, Callahan hopes to re-create another iconic photo: The Associated Press picture showing Saigon's police chief shooting a Viet Cong prisoner in the head during the Tet Offensive.
"He's like, 'I'm a big "Star Wars fan,"' and he really enjoyed what I was doing with the project."
"He asked me if it was him and I was like, 'Yeah, that's you, man,' Callahan said. Bee, who had seen Callahan’s picture of a Clone Trooper taking cover as the impact of a sniper round kicked up debris near his head. In December, Callahan got an unexpected email from Sgt. "With those images in particular, the iconic ones, the re-creations … just kind of force you to reconcile with history," he said.
William Bee narrowly being missed by a Taliban sniper's bullet in 2008. Bradley Kasal being helped out of Fallujah's "Hell House" in 2004 and Sgt. By making a photograph like that, that's how I'm taking the real world and the fictitious world and morphing them together to tell my own story."Ĭallahan has also sought to use "Star Wars" action figures to re-create two iconic war images: Then-1st Sgt. "They're trained to just leave their fallen comrades behind and just charge into battle. "A lot of 'Star Wars' fans, what they'll point out is that with the Clone Troopers or the Storm Troopers, they're trained to just fight, fight, fight," he said. troops carrying a casualty as a helicopter is landing. In another picture, Callahan positioned Clone Troopers carrying a wounded comrade on a litter as dust and debris is blown all around them - a re-creation of images showing U.S.
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