36 Details Statement

This works takes as its focus the image Sept.16. Modane from the series Log Book, which was exhibited and published in Berlin in 2020. It is inspired in large part by the military intelligence imagery I found at the National Archives in Kew, London, during my research. Modane is a town in the French Alps bordering Italy which was the target of a British RAF Bomber Command raid on 16th September 1943.

Additionally the differences between contemplating a subject up close and from distance, particularly within the context of conflict, led me to consider one of my own images in this way. This also coincided with me seeing Gerhard Richter's artist books for the first time, whose often abstract and minimalist approach particularly resonated.

My own publication 36 DETAILS | Sept.16. Modane is the result of the coming together of these different influences. You can find it here.