Guillaume Amat – Espaces Mémoriels

Guillaume Amat used old archival images from world war two and went to the locations where they were taken. He then digitally manipulated the images to add the archival images the into the same place in the image where they originally were. I believe he made this set of images as a reminder to people what happened in the war and how the scars of war are still there if you look hard enough.

This is work have recreated from my own images of the sand dunes and archival from the J.E.P archive. I chose the sand dunes (Blanches Banques) as my chosen area as it was used as a prisoner of war camp in war world two. I edited the images in three different ways: The first was in the style of
Guillaume Amat’s images, where he roughly blends the two images together. In the second I laid the the old image over the new images with no manipulation to show the whole of the second image. The in the last of the experiments, I superimposed a frame around the archival image like my previous shoot but without the use of a model holding the frame.