Kenny Bass is a Marine Corps combat veteran, photographer, author, and nonprofit founder. His current photographic work revisits images he made while serving with 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, in Iraq in 2003. His project, A Marine’s Disposable War, is built from photographs made on the single disposable camera he carried during the deployment and reconsidered more than two decades later as memory, evidence, and art. In 2026, his photograph Spent received Bronze in Photojournalism/Conflict at the Analog Sparks International Photography Awards.