machine gun bullet cover - 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 - 4,2 gram heavy machine gun bullet cover of BZ-A caliber - 23 millimeters Maximum shooting range from ZU-23 - 2000 meters The beginning of the conflict in eastern Ukraine revealed that the army as an institution does not exist in Ukraine and whatever is there is not in working condition. People started organizing into volunteer battalions and arming themselves, they had a goal and personal motivation - to protect the integrity of the country. It was the volunteer battalions that first went to the front and began to fight. As a journalist and a volunteer I have been to numerous battalions fighting in the Donbas, have seen people who were part of them, photographed them and talked to them. In January 2015, I myself was mobilized and joined ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. I was appointed to communications, although I passed the press officer course and for six month tried to get myself reassigned to a combat unit at the front to serve in that capacity... but the press corps turned out to be a new institution which proved to be a prop that did not work. The army has never liked changes and has did not want to work with the press. Though, there were people in place who, on their own initiative and with the assistance of commanding officers helped the journalists. A year later at the end of my service, when the army almost took shape, the war in the Donbas turned into a frozen conflict, similar to Moldovan Transnistria and South Ossetia in Georgia, with the ensuing consequences, and no one knows what will become of it in the future. For more visit www.kupriyan.com

Photography:Color on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:20 W x 30 H x 0.1 D in

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