[Leica] They That Are Left

[briandavidstevens at talk21.com (briandavidstevens at talk21.com)]

Hi LUGers

As some of you may remember for the past 7 years on remembrance day I have 
been shooting portraits of veterans, the portraits are all shot in the same 
style, crop etc, I am aiming to keep shooting it for at least another 3 
years. The project is based around the concept of The Unknown Soldier


This is the intro from the book proposal

"...They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them..."

from Laurence Binyon's 'The Fallen' (first published in The Times, 21st 
September 1914)

"They that are left..." : 'Remembrance' portraits.

Each year they are older, and as they do indeed grow old, as age does weary 
them and as the years do now condemn them more to what they still remember 
than to our truly remembering what they fought for (which is very simple : 
us), 
they thus become unknown. 
These faces then are as of unknown soldiers 
: no cap badges, no ribbons of spooling medals, no insignia for military 
rank. Faces, only. Each deep-etched with who they are and what they did, 
that we might look, and think -- and thank them.
there's a sample of the work here
http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/9423
in a slideshow format

I've recently processed some of these in colour which may lead to an 
offshoot project

http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/2010/03/colour_31.html

do they work as well as the black and whites?

Comments and opinions welcomed!
thanks for your time!

Brian


Brian David Stevens
 http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/