Chloe Dewe Mathews – Memories of World War One | TateShots

Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews talks to us about her work 'Shot at Dawn', on show as part of Tate Modern's 'Conflict, Time, Photography' exhibition.

The artist spent over a year researching and capturing the various locations across Northern Europe where WW1 Soldiers accused of desertion and cowardice were executed. Each photograph was taken during the same season and at the time as the original execution took place, usually at dawn before the warfare continued for the rest of the day.

Each photograph shows the landscape as it is now while also "stamping the presence" of the soldier back into the original scene. She says their "absence makes them glaringly present."

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