vog-17 - 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 Shchastya of Novoaidar Raion in Luhansk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. weight - 1,9 gram VOG-17 (automatic granade louncher) granade Number of fragments - about 100 pieces Destruction area - 70 square meters Caliber - 30 millimeters Maximum shooting range - 1700 meters City Shchastya of Novoaidar Raion in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine became a frontline area. As part of a group of journalists I came to shoot the life of local residents. People were adapting to the new conditions, the place was alive, or at least trying to live a regular life, in spite of the frequent shelling on the outskirts. Some of the shells hit the houses in the village. On the second day of our stay we were interviewing the head of the village council - he was telling us about the changes that took place - when he got a phone call that a shelling occurred nearby, and a civilian was wounded. A VOG-17 mortar round flew into an open door of a shop and exploded on the floor. A young man had an abdominal wound. His mother was letting her emotions out cursing the war. The doors were facing the separatist side but they are afraid to call them guilty or to call them enemies, just as they are afraid to call the Ukrainian military defenders. And just as well as they are afraid to call this war a war. 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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