artillery shell 122 mm - Limited Edition 1 of 20 Print

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 - 23,9 gram Artillery shell, probably 122 millimeters Caliber - 122 millimeters Destruction area - 800 square meters Maximum shooting range from howitzer 2A18 (D-30) - 15,2 kilometers Number of fragments 1-4 gram - 1000-1500 pieces Number of fragments weighing 4 and more gram - 400-850 pieces It has been three days since we left Kyiv in a vehicle delivering volunteer help for the soldiers at the front, and in addition we need to meet another cargo in place and also deliver it to the front line. The plan we had was not too exact and not too detailed - deliver the warm clothes to friends in the Pisky village and then go through Kramatorsk and Sloviansk on to our friends in Volnovakha and to our volunteer friends that we met through social networks in Mariupol. I visited the city three times and with not much to show for - I couldn’t get to make any pictures of military operations at the front line as a journalist since I was either told I was late or not allowed to shoot... The day before our arrival to Mariupol the soldiers of the Donbas volunteer battalion came under fire and suffered casualties. This shelling took place during another round of truce, but everybody kept quiet about it ... We were told about the reason at once - it was a response to the accurate shelling by Ukrainian artillery. A direct hit at a training camp or a base which killed about 200 terrorists, so both sides did use artillery during the truce. It was on the news about a week later and a different unit took credit for it. In another frontline town a military mortar unit was located in a abandoned school yard and alternately shelled the areas on the other side of the front from 3 to 4 p.m. There was no response fire since the other side knew where they were firing and were they to shoot back the mortars would have just been taken to a different position, switching time and order of the attacks... It suited both parties. Not everything that happens on the front makes its way to the news and becomes known to the public. Many human relations remain unknown and especially ‘relations’ across the front as mentioned above... For more visit www.kupriyan.com

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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