Colours of Europe (special edition “the war”)

This collection is dedicated to the upcoming autumn exhibition about freedom and war

Each work is part of a trilogy, all taken at or near to places where WW2 left its marks of annihilation.

The works reflects the tension as well as the harmony between sky, land and sea and leave the imagination of what had happened at those locations to the viewer. These are only barely post-processed photographs taken using a special, slow technique. The images are from the series “Colours of Scotland” and “Colours of Normandy”, both of which are part of the overarching, emerging “Colours of Europe” series.

Limited giclee prints, numbered, stamped and signed. Dimensions 59cm x 42cm, created 2019

Dedicated to the Soldiers from Portree and its neighbourhood on the Isle of Skye, which all served together in D Company, 4th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, who were killed in the evening of May 17 1915 during the Battle of Festubert.

The commune of Trouville-sur-Mer is successively occupied by the Infanterie-Division from 1940 to January 1941, the 225. Infanterie-Division until June 1941, the 332. Infanterie-Division until January 1942 and finally the 711. Infantry Division. On 17 August 1944, more than two months after D-Day, the British launched Operation Paddle in the direction of the Seine. The Belgian and Luxembourg soldiers of the “Brigade Piron” (1st Belgian independent group attached to the 6th Airborne Division) are in the front line in the race towards the Seine. On August 24, two days after the capture of Deauville under the fire of the Germans of the 711. Infantry-Division, the Piron brigade must cross the Touques River but its adversary destroyed the bridges spanning it. Some soldiers swim, others employ makeshift means designed by the sappers. Meanwhile, the German artillery is carrying out several barrage shots in the area. Resistance fighters, already engaged in Deauville to help the Allied soldiers, once again guide the Belgian and Luxembourg soldiers who seize the entire city.

The cliffs near Near Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer (Omaha Beach)