It has now been eight years since the completion of Soldiery, a sweeping portraiture project that consumed over three years of Rory Lewis’s life between 2016 and 2019. The British Army is a proudly diverse institution steeped in heritage, pageantry, and unyielding tradition. With Soldiery—which culminated in both a nationwide exhibition and a published book—Lewis set out to create a contemporary reflection of historic military portraiture.