mortar mine 120 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 village Piski of Yasynuvata Raion of Donetsk Oblast. weight - 71,6 gram Mortar shell 120 millimeters Caliber - 120 millimeters Number of fragments - 3500 pieces Destruction area - 1290 square meters Maximum shooting range - 7,1 kilometers Something whistled overhead. A mortar round! Split second to make a decision. Only one solution - to drop down. And then to crawl away. Boom! Fragments cover the nearby trees and roofs, hit the walls, fall into the snow. I crawled into a hole under the cannon heel where a fighter was already hiding. The space was crowded. One more whistling and another explosion. Then another. I was taking pictures of a guy in front of me; another guy got up from a pit next to me. - Send me a pictures? - Yep! This time no one was killed or wounded. Mortar rounds are common here, and the duels take place daily resulting in the village having but a single house intact, walls shredded by the fragments, wounded dogs wandering the streets, almost all local residents having left, and the place becoming a ghost town. Journalists rarely reach the village of Piski, only the most daring ones. And only a few had gone further on to the Donetsk airport. Six weeks later, on Feb. 28, 2015, photographer Sergei Nikolayev was killed here by a mortar fragment. 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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