The Sublime Beauty of Military Ceremony

August 2006 was the month that the Iraq invasion surpassed the length of World War II; the month that George W. Bush proclaimed “We’re not leaving [Iraq] so long as I’m the president.” It was the same month that Alasdair McLellan and Jo-Ann Furniss embarked on a project to document the ceremonial troops of the British Army, capturing the portraits of men who divide their time between partaking in active combat overseas and regimental gun carriages at home.…