Video: Portraits of soldiers before the war, during the war and after it in the photo project "We Didn't Die"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Photographer Lalage Snow is the author of the project We Are Not Dead, showing portraits of British soldiers before, during and after their participation in the military operation in Afghanistan. Three images from different times make it possible to trace how, in less than a year, the faces of ordinary people changed, becoming sullen and alienated.
In a distant land under its scorching sun, time seemed to have accelerated for these people. Regardless of their age, they went to war as boys, and returned as men who had already seen a lot. Their faces are weathered and thinner, but most of all, their eyes speak about the metamorphoses that happened to them.
Each triptych Lalage Snow is accompanied by quotes from conversations with the military, thereby even more vividly showing the changes in the mental and emotional state of people. For example, before leaving for Afghanistan, twenty-four-year-old Sergeant Alexander McBroom courageously stated: Three months later, he already told: And finally, four months later, he said:
According to Lalage Snow, his project "We are not dead" she not only wanted to pay tribute to the brave warriors. Her project is another attempt to show the war without embellishment, as it is.
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