MLRS GRAD - 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 urban-type settlement Stanytsia Luhanska of Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. weight - 135,3 gram MLRS GRAD (BM-21) rocket shell Caliber - 122 millimeters Maximum shooting range - 20100 meters Destruction area - 1000 square meters Number of prepared fragments (weight 2,4 gram) - 1640 pieces Number of fragments from shell (average weight 2,9 gram) - 2280 pieces There was a shelling the day before. The checkpoint was fired at with the use of MLRS Grad (BM-21), resulting in numerous dead and wounded and damaged equipment - they were collecting everything that was left and redeploying to a new location. It was prohibited us to shoot at the checkpoint so we recorded the stand up at a destroyed roadside car service station. We walked around and saw, what happens when a building is directly hit by a missile - the roof is torn away, the floors are broken or simply fell in inside, the doors are blown off or inflated like tin, window glass is blown outside, thin walls are hit through with shrapnel, with all those inside most probably dead. I found this fragment under my feet on the road. Right now the cars are not allowed to pass, the road is closed, and we can’t go back. After several days near the front line it is time for us to go back but we were forced to stay. Soon the checkpoint was cleared and the traffic resumed, allowing us to go on. Six months later I had a chance to feel and see a MLRS Grad (BM-21) shelling up close from a position next to the one under fire - friendly fire hit a building whose basement housed by Ukrainian Volunteer Corps The Right Sector soldiers in the Piski village of the Donetsk oblast. 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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