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CNN: Home and Away


We’ve been working with our friends at CNN for almost a year on a project that is live as of today, a mapping of coalition casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan called Home and Away and live on CNN.com.

The project is a sobering look at the human cost of two wars in the Middle East, and as such we’ve worked within a restrained and sober palette of blacks, whites and greys. CNN has hooked the maps up to CNN iReport and we’re hearing stories of people using the map to post memories and share stories about their lost loved ones. It’s not been the easiest subject material to work on, but we’ve come away with a keen sense of the human face of these conflicts and hope you’ll take the time to look around a bit at the stories that these kinds of maps can tell.

Published: 05.25.10
Updated: 09.20.22

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