Cpl. Jason Bogar was killed in action on July 13 in Afghanistan. When he died though, his experience in Afghanistan and Iraq didn’t go with him thanks to photographs Bogar took while he served.

NPR has a piece up on Bogar, his three tours of duty and the photographs he took while on them. After he was killed his family looked back at all of the photos he had sent them:

portraits of Afghan children, many of them with eyes rimmed black with kohl that stare right into yours. In others, women peer suspiciously through jewel-colored headscarves. A baby clutches a fistful of his mother’s pleated burqa in his dimpled fist.

takepart to support the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan and takepart again to read more on Bolgar and to listen to the NPR piece. Also go below the jump for more of Bolgar’s images.