Published: April 24, 2019
In 2018 Australian photojournalist Chris Hopkins embarked on a long-term project making portraits of Australian Defence Force veterans living with mental health issues
A trap lay waiting for Mick Ingram as his tank rolled slowly through the water-logged fields. It was 1968, and Ingram’s crew were crossing a remote rice paddy near Nui Dat, Vietnam. From nowhere, a rocket-propelled grenade entered the turret and exited from the back of Ingram’s neck. It split him from forehead to nape. Ingram likens it to “a watermelon dropping from a two-storey building”. His injuries were immense, though he survived and made it home. But like so many other veterans, it was a more insidious trauma that would floor him in the decades to come.
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