May 17 – June 9
Sean Hemmerle
Three Generations of High Explosives
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Sean Hemmerle went to Afghanistan in the earlier part
of this year to document the results of the recent
American bombing campaign. Entirely self-sponsored,
Hemmerle traveled throughout Northern Afghanistan with
a sixteen year-old boy as his guide. It was during
this time that Daniel Pearl was abducted and the war
had shifted south, to Kandahar.
The resulting photographs depict a country devastated
by almost three decades of war. Hemmerle's large,
color prints of battlefields and minefields are shown
with a group of black and white portraits of Afghani
men. The results are as austere and beautiful as the
people and places visited. Majestic landscapes dotted
by bomb craters, ancient neighborhoods reduced to
rubble, discarded tank carcasses, a school leveled by
'smart bombs': the action is just a moment in the
past, and herein lie the most immediate remnants of
savagery.
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