Sean Smith Gallery Review



 

Marking ten years since the start of the 2003 Iraq War, a photographic display by British war photographer Sean Smith reveals the collision of two worlds where local civilians and military personnel were forced to co-exist

 

His photos are arranged the order of time from the beginning of the war and to current date this is shown with a time line at the bottom of the display which also has the number of civilian deaths each year. I think showing the time line and the number of civilian death shows how much the war affected innocent people.

 

 

Not all his photos are the same size some are much lager the overs which I think shows that the larger images are more captivating because when I was at the gallery I noticed that I was paying more attention to the larger images because I could see the content a lot better than the smaller images . saying that though the smaller images where better quality because of the camera that her used at the beginning this is because in the last ten years digital cameras have evolved.

 

 

The images that court my eye the most was the images of the prisoners you could not tell if they were the enemy or civilians. The prisoners were all blind folded and had they hand tied so the only way they could follow the solder was to have their tied hand on the back of the prisoner in front