The summer issue of Aperture features a story titled "Picturing the Iraq War Veterans" by curator Mary Panzer. The article compares the work of Nina Berman, James Nachtwey, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and Christopher Morris calling them "some of the strongest photographers working today." Berman who is represented by Jen Bekman and has a piece on 20x200 titled 9/11 2002 was included in the piece for her projects Purple Hearts and Marine Wedding.

Of Berman's work Panzer writes, "There is nothing intrusive or especially intimate about these images. Berman does not invite her subjects to let down their guard, but rather offers them a chance to be seen on their own terms." Later of the interviews Berman includes in her book Purple Hearts, she notes, "There is no redemptive value here, no glory. Almost everyone expresses some pride in having joined the military, and virtually all give a surprisingly blunt assessment of where they are now, and what their lives will be like from now on."'

Nina Berman's book: Purple Hearts
Berman's Prints: Jen Bekman Gallery
9/11 2002: 9/11 2002