Ahead of my return to Berlin this September I
wanted to post a behind the scenes/comparison photograph from Subterraneans: a
series of photographs I've been working on that relate to Berlin's legacy of
Second World War-era unexploded ordnance. I have been photographing trees growing on or
near the city's former bombsites because their shapes suggest not only past
explosions but – due to time-delay fuses – explosions potentially yet to
happen. The above photograph is the result of over one
hundred exposures, taken over the course of a day and layered in-camera onto
single negative. The top photograph I took with my iPhone in order to geotag
the location.
My portrait of Salah Madoul (27) taken while working on photographs for The Devil's Garden in El Dabaa, Egypt. Salah was injured not by WWII landmines or UXO but in a shooting accident as a member of Egyptian Homeland Security.
