artillery shell 152 mm - Limited Edition 1 of 20 Photograph

The photo is the part of the project "Fragments of War". Life size scans of munition fragments found in the territory of the Donbas, with grooves and bends, whose sharp edges can easily kill or maim anyone on their way from the barrel to the place of impact and spalling. Each fragment has its own history, the circumstances in which I found it; origin, where it came from and how I came by it; place where it was found. After the spalling and impact begins another story. And now compiling a new history which describes what happened during the war, the participation of the people, soldiers, volunteers, citizens - everyone became a fragment that was knocked from his/her place in life and abandoned on the battlefield and up to pile into something new and powerful. Found in city Debaltseve in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. weight - 196, 7 gram Artillery shell, probably 152 millimeters Caliber - 152,4 millimeters Destruction area - 950 square meters Maximum shooting range from howitzer 2A18 (D-30) - 17,4 kilometers Number of fragments less than 1 gram - 700 pieces Number of fragments 1-4 gram - 1160 pieces Number of fragments weighing 4 and more gram - 1600 pieces At the end of January 2015 heavy fighting ensued around Debaltseve, which resulted in the Debaltseve pocket. There was a threat of the troops being completely encircled and a feeling of an imminent end-all. At this time the fourth wave of mobilization commenced and I was called up. I had a month of training first, and then the actually military service starts. The officers would read the news and announcements during and in-between the lectures. All our thoughts were there, everyone was excited and hoped to be sent to such unstable and illusive front. My time in the service turned out to be away in the deep rear in a communication unit and I had not had been rotated to take part in the activities at the front. These fragments had been lying on the floor of an office in our military base, abandoned and forgotten and would have eventually ended up in the trash. They came from Debaltseve along with the army’s retreat under massive shelling, brought by officers as souvenirs. The equipment that came back was hit and mutilated, with fragments having pierced aluminum truck shelters and some cars having been burnt or abandoned at Debaltseve. If I did not get called in to serve in the Armed Forces I would have definitely been in Debaltseve taking pictures. Either way, I ended up with these fragments. For more visit www.kupriyan.com

Photography:Color on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:30 W x 20 H x 0.1 D in

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