EXCISTENCE – Wounds of war

Requiem – silver gelatin prints on baryt paper manipulated only in photographic darkroom printing processes. Unique 50 x 60 cm prints. My father wounded in the Second World War. He suffered all his life the wounds although the foot was surgeryed on three different decades. The prints were struggled into life under the red light of the darkroom. Only 20 photographs survived of 60 totally processed. Exhibition view – all the walls were covered by black paper that had an smell of tar. Finnfoto Gallery Helsinki.

My father wounded in the Second World War. He suffered all his life the wounds although the foot was surgeryed on three different decades. The prints were struggled into life under the red light of the darkroom.

Only 20 photographs survived of 60 totally processed.

Exhibition view – all the walls were covered by black paper that had an smell of tar. Finnfoto Gallery Helsinki.

At the militar hospital in Helsinki. (Photographer unknown)

Viktor with the first child of the family and the splinters of wounds.

One of the latest photos of the foot without darkroom manipulation. (Above)

A kind of wounds seen everwhere (Below).

Requiem

Silver gelatin prints on baryt paper manipulated only in photographic darkroom printing processes.

Unique 50 x 60 cm prints.

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