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example 1
The soldiers
This is a cold night, you can hear every single noise of the dark.
3 people hiding in the corner of a house that is not so far away from the fighting , you can hear the bombs and machine guns that answer to each other endlessly.
One of the soldier felt a hot fluid between his knees and looked at his enemy:
-Are you bleeding?
-Yes, one of your men has shot me but not too serious.
-Why are you here? asked the injured man.
-I saw an advertisement in the Post Office window , if you enjoy the army and you go to fight only for 3 months you can make easily 100 thousand pounds, and if you continue to work for them at quite an early age you can be retired and can get a good pension. I thought this is an easy way to make my life comfortable, only 3 months and I have enough money to buy a house and I don't need to struggle anymore with what's happening later. So I went and registered in the army and at the end of the day I found myself here.
-And you?
-I haven't got a choice, if I'm not going they shoot me. In the beginning I was proud to defend my country, but then.......I haven't got a choice - do you understand me?
-Yes, said the injured man.....
About five minutes of sharp silence that was only broken by the noises of fighting that was happening nearby.
-Why are you here? even though you haven't got an uniform.
-My family live in this house where we are now , I fight because I want safety for my wife and my two children, help them to be able to escape from the soldiers. They find me and follow me so they can run away unnoticed, then one of your colleagues shot me by the lake. He thought I fell into the water so left me behind and went back where he come from.
Again 5 minutes of sharp silence that was only broken by a big bang and every dream, aim and reason broke into several pieces.
The Soldier
We can describe human history as a history of the wars of ideas, interest and power. Why are wars happening in the world? There are a lot of concepts which try to explain the reason for human aggression. Some people think that it is the nature whoever is the strongest will survive. They call this phenomena natural selection. It can appear to humans as an awful thing when the tiger eats the weakest animal in pack or herd. In reality this increases the herd's survival possibilities because will the strongest survive and reproduce the best offspring. Religious concepts say that aggression is a kind of sickness that needs to be healed. The first example in the human beings history when the sickness was documented is story of Cain and Abel.
I do not believe that natural selection is exists because any disaster can destroy the best pieces in the herd. The war is threatening the human existence therefore similar to a sickness or a negative deformation. My pictures is illustrate how meaningless every war and any reason for a fight ending with no future for anyone. It's not important if you are right or wrong , the way is the same for everyone, poor darkness and silence of the death. The plastic soldiers create the feeling of how cheap is human life by (own) measure of humanity. We do not appreciate the gift of the universe, we and other living being exist because we are measure as a sum of money. We show to our generation the war as a game and the human being as a disaster because we are accepting and explaining all bad that is happening around us. We are the plastic soldiers because we fighting and killing each other and don't value ours and other people lives. Human being history shows us that by our way of thinking and understanding the reality is repeatedly becaming a blood shower.
Don MCCullin is a famous war photographer who has travelled all around the word and captured the horrible moment of the bloodshed. The first time he was excuted to be famous and it gave him inspiration to continue this Job. He went to Vietnam and saw the most bloody war and that event changed his life forever. He saw Nepal bombs and watched how people body exploded and hundreds of them were injured. He became psychically and mentally sick as did most of the soldiers who were in there, the name of the sickness is combat stress.
"I thought, you know, it (the shower) could cleanse the filth of war off me. It didn't, really, because by then it had all gotten into my brain."
"I was sleeping next to bodies and things (in Hue)... and then you say, 'What the hell's this got to do with photography?' 'Who am I?' 'Where the hell have I just been?' 'What's happened to me?'"
He never fully recovered from the physical damaged that he suffered during the time he spent in Vietnam. He paid a big price to be famous because he lost forever the peace in his soul and never found answers as to why people do such terrible things to each other.
After he started doing landscape and different subject and in a point in his life started demand to show his war photography for public to be forgotten forever the past, nothing remember him for that terrible experience. He was very proud about his work ethic and the person who he captured was important to him therefore he try to be gentle and do not show things that can be disgusting for the subject.
He showed through his work, how important each life that we lost during the war and no one recognized it. He tired make people aware about how horrible is the war so never happening again. He showed the war to us perspective of the soldier , how they lost their life without any sensible reason and show their pain and suffer. My work shows the war by eyes of the power when the human life doesn't cost anything. The plastic soldiers haven't got emotion, fear, personal values, they only tools for a games and doesn't matter what happening with them.
James Natchtwey is a great American war photographer who also captured the Vietnam war. His aim was to show how much insensate the humanity and brutal, to wake up the ignorance people from their dream land by his traumatic documentary photography.
"I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated. "
-James Nachtwey-
It is a good question, can anyone make a huge impact on people by capture the pure brutal reality? Do those images really encourage people to stop inhuman activities? My opinion if someone saw once socking image it can make a huge impact on that person and can stimulate him/her. If those images became part of their everyday life, it is train them to became ignorance about those fact. If you see for the first time in your life a homeless person, it will shock you but if you saw everyday you became ignorance and detach by emotionally. Therefore it is very important the war photography does not become a style or an easy way to be famous by the subject because the war photography loose own mission and power to make an impact on society.
James Natchwey Afghan war photography is very impressive and some way even surrealistic and symbolic as my present work. The women in the cemetery is the only person who is still alive today and she cuddled a cold stone symbolising her son. This is what's left of those whom she loves. After we saw the same woman walking alone in the street where every building was destroyed. I would like bring to attention the first war photographer who doesn't capture bloody images or moments of war. He illustrated the war inhuman side by documented what was left after the war. This way to express the war is more effective because it troubled me emotionally.
w source: BBC
ww.jamesnachtwey.com/
example 1
The soldiers
This is a cold night, you can hear every single noise of the dark.
3 people hiding in the corner of a house that is not so far away from the fighting , you can hear the bombs and machine guns that answer to each other endlessly.
One of the soldier felt a hot fluid between his knees and looked at his enemy:
-Are you bleeding?
-Yes, one of your men has shot me but not too serious.
-Why are you here? asked the injured man.
-I saw an advertisement in the Post Office window , if you enjoy the army and you go to fight only for 3 months you can make easily 100 thousand pounds, and if you continue to work for them at quite an early age you can be retired and can get a good pension. I thought this is an easy way to make my life comfortable, only 3 months and I have enough money to buy a house and I don't need to struggle anymore with what's happening later. So I went and registered in the army and at the end of the day I found myself here.
-And you?
-I haven't got a choice, if I'm not going they shoot me. In the beginning I was proud to defend my country, but then.......I haven't got a choice - do you understand me?
-Yes, said the injured man.....
About five minutes of sharp silence that was only broken by the noises of fighting that was happening nearby.
-Why are you here? even though you haven't got an uniform.
-My family live in this house where we are now , I fight because I want safety for my wife and my two children, help them to be able to escape from the soldiers. They find me and follow me so they can run away unnoticed, then one of your colleagues shot me by the lake. He thought I fell into the water so left me behind and went back where he come from.
Again 5 minutes of sharp silence that was only broken by a big bang and every dream, aim and reason broke into several pieces.
The Soldier
We can describe human history as a history of the wars of ideas, interest and power. Why are wars happening in the world? There are a lot of concepts which try to explain the reason for human aggression. Some people think that it is the nature whoever is the strongest will survive. They call this phenomena natural selection. It can appear to humans as an awful thing when the tiger eats the weakest animal in pack or herd. In reality this increases the herd's survival possibilities because will the strongest survive and reproduce the best offspring. Religious concepts say that aggression is a kind of sickness that needs to be healed. The first example in the human beings history when the sickness was documented is story of Cain and Abel.
I do not believe that natural selection is exists because any disaster can destroy the best pieces in the herd. The war is threatening the human existence therefore similar to a sickness or a negative deformation. My pictures is illustrate how meaningless every war and any reason for a fight ending with no future for anyone. It's not important if you are right or wrong , the way is the same for everyone, poor darkness and silence of the death. The plastic soldiers create the feeling of how cheap is human life by (own) measure of humanity. We do not appreciate the gift of the universe, we and other living being exist because we are measure as a sum of money. We show to our generation the war as a game and the human being as a disaster because we are accepting and explaining all bad that is happening around us. We are the plastic soldiers because we fighting and killing each other and don't value ours and other people lives. Human being history shows us that by our way of thinking and understanding the reality is repeatedly becaming a blood shower.
Don MCCullin is a famous war photographer who has travelled all around the word and captured the horrible moment of the bloodshed. The first time he was excuted to be famous and it gave him inspiration to continue this Job. He went to Vietnam and saw the most bloody war and that event changed his life forever. He saw Nepal bombs and watched how people body exploded and hundreds of them were injured. He became psychically and mentally sick as did most of the soldiers who were in there, the name of the sickness is combat stress.
"I thought, you know, it (the shower) could cleanse the filth of war off me. It didn't, really, because by then it had all gotten into my brain."
"I was sleeping next to bodies and things (in Hue)... and then you say, 'What the hell's this got to do with photography?' 'Who am I?' 'Where the hell have I just been?' 'What's happened to me?'"
He never fully recovered from the physical damaged that he suffered during the time he spent in Vietnam. He paid a big price to be famous because he lost forever the peace in his soul and never found answers as to why people do such terrible things to each other.
After he started doing landscape and different subject and in a point in his life started demand to show his war photography for public to be forgotten forever the past, nothing remember him for that terrible experience. He was very proud about his work ethic and the person who he captured was important to him therefore he try to be gentle and do not show things that can be disgusting for the subject.
He showed through his work, how important each life that we lost during the war and no one recognized it. He tired make people aware about how horrible is the war so never happening again. He showed the war to us perspective of the soldier , how they lost their life without any sensible reason and show their pain and suffer. My work shows the war by eyes of the power when the human life doesn't cost anything. The plastic soldiers haven't got emotion, fear, personal values, they only tools for a games and doesn't matter what happening with them.
James Natchtwey is a great American war photographer who also captured the Vietnam war. His aim was to show how much insensate the humanity and brutal, to wake up the ignorance people from their dream land by his traumatic documentary photography.
"I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated. "
-James Nachtwey-
It is a good question, can anyone make a huge impact on people by capture the pure brutal reality? Do those images really encourage people to stop inhuman activities? My opinion if someone saw once socking image it can make a huge impact on that person and can stimulate him/her. If those images became part of their everyday life, it is train them to became ignorance about those fact. If you see for the first time in your life a homeless person, it will shock you but if you saw everyday you became ignorance and detach by emotionally. Therefore it is very important the war photography does not become a style or an easy way to be famous by the subject because the war photography loose own mission and power to make an impact on society.
James Natchwey Afghan war photography is very impressive and some way even surrealistic and symbolic as my present work. The women in the cemetery is the only person who is still alive today and she cuddled a cold stone symbolising her son. This is what's left of those whom she loves. After we saw the same woman walking alone in the street where every building was destroyed. I would like bring to attention the first war photographer who doesn't capture bloody images or moments of war. He illustrated the war inhuman side by documented what was left after the war. This way to express the war is more effective because it troubled me emotionally.
w source: BBC
ww.jamesnachtwey.com/