Chicago veteran war photographer to launch ‘Burn Pit’ documentary project on Instagram
By Alina Pawl-Castanon Photographer Bill Putnam was searching palm groves along the arching river of the Tigris south of Baghdad in 2004 when the Iraqi soldiers with the U.S. Army unit he was embedded with started to drop. The sun was harsh and the air was thick with humidity that July day, 20 years ago.