By: James Groleau

Medium: Mezzotint
Image Size: 12" x 10"
Edition Size: 20

Karbala belongs to James Groleau’s Absence of Passion / Portraits of Iraq series, a group of mezzotints that reflect on distance, conflict, and the quiet human cost of war. Rather than literal portraiture or documentary imagery, Groleau employs restrained tonal fields, softened forms, and deep blacks to evoke absence, memory, and psychological weight.