February 2025
“The fate of man is man”
~ Bertolt Brecht
The faces in this series were selected from a group photograph of Australian soldiers taken in 1916 in Melbourne before the volunteer soldiers departed for Flanders and the Battle of Passchendaele.
I do not know how many men returned from the war.
The photograph was behind glass and placed directly on the scanner. The distance between the image and the scanner interface produced the blurred images. Red was added through feeling and intuition. The images were sequenced (as in the slideshow above) as in a piece of music.
The series is meant to be disturbing. You are not meant to like these images. They are anti-war.
36 images in the series
© Marcus Bunyan
Photographs are available from this series for purchase. As a guide, a digital colour 16″ x 20″ print costs $1,000 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see the Store web page.
Marcus Bunyan (Australian, b. 1958)
The Shadow Takes Another Form
2024-2025
Digital photographs
Note: Animation of still image sequence
