Purple Hearts is a series of portraits and interviews with American veterans seriously wounded in the Iraq War.  The portraits were made in their homes, in veterans hospitals and on military bases across the United States from 2003 - 2004.   The series was published in book form as  Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq by Trolley, 2004.  The series exists as a 9 minutes photo film and as a feature  feature length documentary film made by VPRO in the Netherlands and broadcast in Europe and the USA

Exhibitions include: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Honolulu Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Massachusetts College of Art, Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University,  Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Photography, Charleroi, and Photokina.   Media publications and broadcast include:  The New York Times,  St. Petersburg Press, TIME, Mother Jones,  Chicago Sun Times, CBS Sunday Morning News, BBC, PBS, among others.

Recipient of World Press Award 2005 in Portrait category

Selected Exhibitions/Events

WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath
November 2012
Houston, Texas
Traveling to Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and Brooklyn Museum through February 2014

Milano Triennale
Exhibition Purple Hearts - Marine Wedding
October 18 2010 - January 9, 2011
Milano, Italy

Melkweg Gallery
Solo Exhibition - Purple Hearts
November 4 - 28, 2010
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Carter Center
Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health
Slide show presentation
November 3, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia

Bernstein Gallery - Princeton University
Solo Exhibition - Purple Hearts
October 25 - December 3, 2010
Princeton, New Jersey

IPPNW World Congress
Exhibition
August 23 - 30, 2010
Basel, Switzerland

Scottish Parliament
Picturing Conflict
Nina Berman in conversation with Charlotte Cotton
August 21, 2010
Edinburgh, Scotland

Media Alliance
Solo Exhibition - Homeland/Purple Hearts
September 26 - December 18, 2009
Troy, New York

War Photo Limited Museum
Purple Hearts - Marine Wedding
May 1 - July 29, 2009
Dubrovnik, Croatia

Anthology Films Archive
Double Vision Film Festival- Purple Hearts screening
April 14, 2009
New York City

Houston Center for Photography
Film Screening - Purple Hearts
March 14, 2009
Houston, Texas

Cicero Gallery
Solo Exhibition
October 1 - November 15, 2008
Berlin, Germany

Photokina
Visual Gallery
September 23 - September 28, 2008
Cologne, Germany

Pingyao International Photo Festival
September 19 - September 25, 2008
Pingyao, China

Bumbershoot
Group Exhibition
August 29 - September 1, 2008
Seattle, Washington

Northern Virginia Community College
March 19, 2008 - Lecture
Arlington, Virginia

Elon University
Purple Hearts Exhibition
March 3 - March 20, 2008
Elon, North Carolina

Massachusetts College of Art
“War Stories” Group Exhibition
February 11– March 12, 2008
Boston, Massachusetts

USC Annenberg School of Communications
January 17, 2008 - Lecture
Los Angeles, California

Musee de l'Art Wallon
"Icare" Group Show
October 13 - November 18, 2007
Liege, Belgium

Pittsburgh Filmmakers
September 7 - October 21, 2007
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jen Bekman Gallery - Solo Show
August 8, 2007 - September 8, 2007
New York City

Boca Raton Museum of Art
"Thy Brothers' Keeper" Group Show
June 13 - August 26, 2007
Boca Raton, FloridaJ

Alice Austen Museum - Solo Show
March 18-April 28, 2007
Staten Island, New York

Chicago Cultural Center
"Humans Being: Disability in Contemporary Art" Group Show
April 1 – June 4, 2006
Chicago, Illinois

University of Hilo - Solo Show
February 3 - 17, 2006
Hilo, Hawaii

National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum - Solo Show
November 11, 2005 - May 25, 2006
Chicago, Illinois

Blue Sky Gallery - Solo Show
July 7 - July 30, 2005
Portland, Oregon

Open Society Institute
Moving Walls - Group Show
March 16, 2005 - Sept. 2005
New York City

German American Institute - Solo Show
Heidelberg, Germany
March 18, 2005 - December 2005 (12 German cities)

Smack Mellon
"On the Subject of War" Group Show
Brooklyn, NY
February 12 - March 27, 2005

New York CityVisa Pour L’Image
September 4, 2004
Perpignan, France


Collections:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Portland Art Museum 
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi