You're lookin' at it. The final final. Someday I'll show you the two that didn't make the cut. For now we focus on winners only.
If you click anywhere in this sentence, you will be taken to a page where you can view larger versions of each image.
Next, I'm going to paraphrase the artist's statement that was a required accompaniment to the photos.
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During the month of August 2007, I was lucky enough to find myself in a situation where I could photograph many World War II historic locations in and around Normandy, France. My paternal grandfather had been a Lt. Colonel in WWII, giving over 37 years of his life to the United States Army. His death at age 92, 9 months prior, had left me with an insatiable curiosity about the events surrounding D-Day. The army was never far from his thoughts. In the end, as his physical health deteriorated, his mind returned to those same battlefields where he had felt the most alive.This series of photographs explores the notion of war and time. More specifically, it explores the effect of war and time on a physical location, as well as our collective human memory. The idea that the monstrous and bloodied events that took place in Normandy could ever fade seems cruel and unimaginable. Yet the jarring sounds of guns and wails of dying soldiers dissipate into the calming quiet of a rolling ocean, as the cries of children at play permeate the beach, some 60 years later.
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and on and on. and. on.
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