The topic Women and War has taken photographer Marissa Roth to many countries over a time span of 28 years. It began in 1984 with a family trip to the former Yugoslavia, home of her Jewish grandparents - who were murdered by Hungarian Fascists in 1942 - and in 1988 with a commission by the Los Angeles Times to portray Afghan women refugees. Accompanying a medical mission and photographing refugees in Albania in 1999, she realized that the focus of the immediate and permanent effects of war on wo… more