ROHIT SHARMA

Portrait of Rohit Sharma

Cost of War

data visualisation

This book lists violent incidents and accompanying civilian deaths in Iraq between 20 March 2003 and 18 December 2011.

Data Source: Iraq Body Count Project.

I wrote an automated workflow to parse & merge large data-sets, render html, style it, and produce a printable book. It was then self-published and hand-bound. The project was part of the installation for graduation project at RCA for Shobhan Shah.

 The Cost of War, a self-published, hand-bound black book with the title embossed on the cover Open spread of the Cost of War book listing dated entries of violent incidents and civilian deaths in Iraq Open spread of the Cost of War book showing a March 2003 entry with named civilian casualties