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Basetrack
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Basetrack is an experimental social media project, tracking the deployment of 1/8 – 1st Battalion, Eighth Marines, throughout the duration of their deployment to southern Afghanistan in 2010-2011. A small team of photographers embedded with the battalion, using iPhones and a Facebook page to connect over a thousand Marines and Corpsmen to their families, and to connect a broader public to the longest war in US history. Basetrack was supported by a 2010 News Challenge Grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Biography

Teru Kuwayama is a photographer from New York. His work over the past decade has focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir. In 2004, while working in Iraq, he designed Lightstalkers, a global, online community of photographers and unconventional travelers. In 2007 he launched the Battlespace project, a traveling exhibition of photographs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was a 2009–2010 Knight Fellow at Stanford University, a 2010 TED Global Fellow and a 2010 Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. He received a 2010 Knight News Challenge Award to launch Basetrack, an online social media project that chronicled the deployment of a US Marine battalion in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011.  He is a 2012-2014 TED Senior Fellow.

Fun facts

Favorite meal:
improvised stir-fry. backpack contains knives, chili pastes, smoked tofu.