Walking Wounded asserts that the injured body is never solely private; it becomes an inscription on public space. These images track how visible wounds turn sidewalks into stages of endurance, where pain is not erased but carried into the ordinary theatre of daily life. The work refuses to romanticize survival, proposing fragility itself as a shared condition.

The play of the gaze drives the series. In some images, subjects look back, returning the viewer’s scrutiny and unsettling the balance of power. In others, unawareness intensifies the Foucauldian mechanics of surveillance: the body becomes visible without consent, drafted into public meaning. This flicker between self-possession and exposure embodies Lacan’s destabilizing gaze, where looking never leaves subject or viewer unchanged. Each photograph stages this tension, forcing confrontation not only with the wounded body but with our own act of seeing.

Formally, the restrained style mirrors the theme. The images are direct, withholding spectacle, which draws attention to the uneasy relationship between vulnerability and endurance. What surfaces is not the drama of injury but the persistence of presence. Walking Wounded positions the marked body as a living map—charting how fragility and resilience reshape the spaces we all inhabit together.