C.J. Chivers examines how Bryan Denton, at 6' 6'', photographs in a war zone:
In the chaotic and random ways that high-explosive ordnance fells its victims, size matters at many moments. The more space something takes up, or the higher it rises from the ground, the more likely it is to be struck. Anyone who has been under mortar, artillery or rocket fire, or been exposed when improvised explosives or airstrikes detonate nearby, knows the feeling: being low and compact often mean, in a word, life.