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War Diary
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14/7/2003

War Diary

The Bread and Roses Pub, London

There are many wars, fought for many reasons, affecting many people in many different ways. War Diary is a personal record of a war experienced thousands of miles from the real thing. Live news footage brought war into the home and the images, plans and theories of war entered the domestic domain.


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There are many wars, fought for many reasons, affecting many people in many different ways. War Diary is a personal record of a war experienced thousands of miles from the real thing. Live news footage brought war into the home and the images, plans and theories of war entered the domestic domain.

At home, on the TV, were images of the usually unseen. And the previously impossible to see, night fighting, made visible through infra-red technology in an unearthly haze of green - unreal reality TV.

The screened images are third hand experiences: what the camera man recorded the producer edited to 60 seconds. Edited again these still images of the war become disquietly unreal and strangely seductive, due partly to the luminosity of the television screen. Colours are brighter and more intense, mirroring the heightening experience of war. Images of soldiers, high tech armour and fast jets in action are deceptively alluring, reminiscent of a slick action movie. And then there is a small boy, grinning with glee, shouldering an unexploded mortar round, flashed for a fleeting moment across the screen. Now there is the correspondent on the ground, then switch to the market report.

Witnessing the Iraq War raised an awareness of the contradiction of watching war - macho, feral and destructive - in the home - familiar and comfortable. Pictures of events with enduring consequences, seen across the world by millions of people would, but for a few iconic images, almost just as instantly be forgotten.

These photographs are a few intimate images of a war seen on a small screen.

private view: Tuesday 15 July 7 - 9 pm

exhibition runs: 16 July - 26 August 2003
opening hours: Mon - Sat 12am - 11pm
Sun 12am - 10.30pm

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Image: Loren Beven, TWO MEN CHEERING
18 x 26 cms - 8" x 11" 4
photographic print

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