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Published to accompany the exhibition held at Espace Art Contemporain, La Rochelle, 26 June-22 August, 2009.

Trenches like these extend across France for 450 miles, from Switzerland to the North Sea. Two million soldiers hold them day and night. As trench warfare developed, caves were dug into the walls at intervals, lined with timber, roofed, floored,…

Before us lie all that shot and shell have left of a peaceful village. The Germans have passed by ; they have left their mark. Church and dwelling are involved in common ruin. Even the trees are shattered and shell-torn. French soldiers are searching…

This is one of the hundreds of villages caught in the storm of war that swept over Northern France but a few years ago. The villagers returning to their homes after the deluge was over, found but the mass of ruins we see. What had once been home,…