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Bob Le Sueur – Story of Occupation

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Bob Le Sueur 19 when the Germans arrived and 24 when the Germans left 

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This is an Portrait of Bob Le Sueur when he was 24. This was drawn by the Russian slave worker who was looked after by Feodor Burriy

Incident German Arrived 1940: 

Morning July 1st – air on the 28th June – lot of damage people killed, lived west of St helier, woken up by German planes- German bomber planes, Two parachutes with cylinders (contained messages for the commander of chief- saying that the island would be demilitarised as they are not of military value). 

The messages were sent to the bailiff – they had a day to surrender or overwise they would carpet bomb the island- people in England said they cant defend the island however they said to stay by their post and try to defend as possible for the population. 

Germans didn’t invade French borders, but Hitler did decide to invade without warning into Dutch borders and into Luxemburg, people were woken up at 6am. 

100, 000 population totalled the 2 islands at the time of German occupation. 

The atmosphere in jersey at the beginning of the German occupation was that it was very tense, but it was broken by captain bennay was in command, pigeon went over head and was sick over him and his pork pie hat – people started to laugh and giggle. The captain was angry and stormed off.   

When this was all over there was going to make an official announced by the bailiffs. 

Story two: 

Number 7 – two floors up apartments – family homes 

2 young men shared a flat – they sheltered an escaped Russian prisoner, Hitler intended to not occupy the whole of British Isles if   Germans did win as could do so. 

Jersey was more fortified than anywhere else that the Nazis were occupied. 

Spanish abled men were sent to jersey by the Nazis to build the fortifications, but they were many forced workers sent here, theses weren’t paid except the Spanish men. 

2 15-year-old boys were sent to jersey after being stopped by the Germans when walking home (Ukrainian). 

A Russian was housed by two people who shared their rations with the Russian got an illegal registration card. 

September 1944 – gas supply was stopped meaning that people had to cook on an open fire, meaning that the young people put on party.  Russian got hold of the calvados before the party and was bellowing out a song and dancing, German soldiers walking below singing, however they didn’t do anything. 

Liberation Day: 

April 20th Berlin fell 

January 1945 – electricity supply cut off – at this point people were starving. 

Jersey Evening post was still going only on sheet of paper one side was local news, and the other side was the German news 

The armistice was being negotiated and was announced on May 9th 

Pictures Taken:


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Edited Versions of Photos:

First Step in Lightroom Selected Photos
Second Step In lightroom, selected photos again for the ones im going to edit
3rd step: Selected Photo- I have cropped to how I want it to look like.
4th step: I have converted the image into black and white and changed the shadows and highlights in the image.

Final Image – Bob Le Sueur

Second Edit:

I have decided to compare the images in black and white/Colour to help me decide whether or not to convert the image.
I decided to go with black and white I have edited the tone in the image and the effects in the image for examples I have changed the highlight amount to +19 whereas it was set at zero, changing this has created a slight oval shape to the image around the edges.
Final Image 2 – Bob Le Sueur

Third Edit:

1st Step: I have decided to crop the image so you can only see his head and shoulders.
2nd Step: I have put a gradual light effect on which spreads the highlights across his face.
3rd Step: Converted the image to black and white.

I have Put an overlay on the image.

I have dissolved the frame more, I like this on the image as it has created the image to be darker and the edges of the image are much lighter than before.
I have decided to go with this frame colour as it goes with image without changing the actual image.
Final Image – Bob Le Sueur

Fourth Edit:

1st step: I have cropped the image, creating less space around the person.
2nd step: I have edited the highlights and shadows by increasing or decreasing what I needed.
Final Image – Bob Le Sueur.
I have decided not to edit this image any further as I dont want to over edit therefore making the image look not real.

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