Introduction

My area of study is going to be war photography, as it is related to the topic were studying (occupation vs. liberation) and because I have a lot of family history with wars. Specially with how my great grandpa was a high rank and a really appreciated leader by his country and even other countries like Palestine. His biggest achievement was leading the whole Jordanian army in Al Karamah battle and that is what I will be focusing on. I’m going to start first by talking about how I heard of his stories, then I’m going to talk about his story and achievements, lastly, I’m going to finish up by talking about how he affected me personally. Meanwhile I will be using artists references throughout. 

The artist I’m going to be studying first and analyzing is Paul Burnal as he is a war author which is similar to what I’m working on, and i chose him specifically out of a lot of war authors as he wrote one of my favorite books which is Batterie Lothringer and is based on photographs taken in Jersey about wars so that will give me easy access to take the similar photographs.

I am going to be responding to his work by studying him and his history first, then I’m going to try and do similar photographs as his. 

The quote that caught my eyes as I was reading his book is “…Buried four bodies today, I was quite tired from all these going on” (Burnal,2015:221); As it just shows how much he suffered and was just done with everything going on which relates to my story as I kind of had to suffer from the effect of war on me. 

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I also want to link cultural-ism to my project as it somehow has an effect on everything that’s included in my project, the basic idea about cultural-ism is that it is the idea that individuals are determined by their culture, that these cultures form closed, organic wholes, and that the individual is unable to leave his or her own culture but rather can only realize him or herself within it. Which also relates to how i came to Jersey for education and still want to complete my wish of going into going into the navy as my great grandpa influenced me to after his achievements, but even if i want to join an English based army force i will not be able to just become English while i’m there no matter how long i stay i will always have my culture that will not change no matter what.

I want to use this photograph as proof of my idea of cultural ism as you can see how even though the guy in the middle is serving for a different culture he still kept his cultural identity and didn’t try to hide it but yet he wanted to show it off to everybody by dressing as his culture would with his head dress and facial hair. And this relates to how i would be if i was to join an English army force i would still practice my own cultural practices.

Bibliography

Paul,B. (2002) Channel Islands Occupation Society.