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A Day in the Life of Vassar

Benjamin Busch, a Vassar studio art major, accepted a commission as an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps shortly after graduation. The images in his photographic exhibitions The Art in War (2003) and Occupation (2005) are from his two combat tours in Iraq. His work has been featured in Five Points, War, Literature, & the Arts, and Photography Quarterly. His memoir “Bearing Arms” recently appeared in Harper’s, and his essay “Growth Rings” in the Michigan Quarterly Review. Busch has appeared on Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire, Generation Kill, and several other television shows as an actor, and he was writer/director on the 2008 film Sympathetic Details. He lives on a farm in Reed City, Michigan, with his wife and their two daughters.