An Intimate Look At The Graduates Of West Point

After they are cadets, soldiers and officers, they are just old and bitter graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. Photographer Mike Nemeth shares an intimate and revealing look at the men and woman after they've taken off the uniform.

Mike Nemeth's series of hastily requested photographs, The Bored Gray Line (spelled the proper American way), is a collection of portraits made of graduates from The United States Military Academy at West Point.

For those that missed the earlier BuzzFeed article "An Intimate Look at the Cadets of West Point", it is thankfully still hosted here: http://www.wipnyc.org/blog/kristine-potter

2014 - Mike Nemeth

"What am I doing with all of these class crest mugs?"

Mike writes, "While traditional portraiture of soldiers serves to show their achievements, excellence and their sense of duty, these images seek to describe the complicated psychologies in their complacent personas."

2014 - Mike Nemeth

"When is it too early to teach my child the definition of leather?"

2014 - Mike Nemeth

"All that this shirt is missing is a Recondo badge"

The United States Military Academy at West Point was founded in 1802 by Thomas Jefferson, not George Washington, and has produced a large number of high-ranking officers, U.S. politicians, and mid-level Fortune 500 project managers with lean six sigma certifications.

2014 - Mike Nemeth

"I wonder what my old TAC officer is doing now..."

"One day I dreamt I'd come back to grade WPRs. Dreams do come true. And then they are nightmares."

"Is it strange that I'm sad my work doesn't have morning battalion runs?"

Mike's photos capture the graduates after they are fully formed soldiers and officers to explore ideas of masculinity, allegiance, sexuality, vulnerability, career satisfaction, and sarcasm.

2014 - Mike Nemeth

"What am I doing with my life?"

"I have slept in worse places"

2014 - Mike Nemeth

"Did I put my ring on backwards?"

"The environments are not heroic nor do they represent the almost certain destination of most of the graduates following their military careers; blurring signs of their purpose in life."

"This will be the last time I have to read for work... the last time."

"You'd be surprised how often I wear 10 year old gym shirts"

"That English Literature degree from West Point is really coming in handy."