Another Time
Documenting the living memory of the Battle of the Bulge and the Liberation of Belgium, before the last witnesses are gone.
For several years, I have been following living history associations that bring back to life the presence of the American army in Belgium during the Second World War, on the very ground where the fighting took place, in Bastogne, in the Ardennes, and at other sites of the Liberation in Belgium. Each photograph is made on black and white film, developed and printed by hand. Today, as the generation that lived through the war, soldiers and civilians alike, has nearly disappeared entirely, this work becomes an archive in the truest sense: what I photograph can never be photographed in the same way again.
Museums & institutions
A silver gelatin documentary project on the memory of the Liberation, presented with its sources and historical context.
See the historical context →Veterans & associations (United States)
A memory followed from Belgium, on the very ground where your relatives fought.
Discover the approach →Living history associations
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Photographs made with the 101st Airborne Division Belgian Friendly, between 2008 and 2016, in Cendron, Bastogne, and Bihain.
Why film
I did not choose film photography out of nostalgia, but because it forces me to slow down: preparing each image before pressing the shutter, then developing and printing every negative myself in the darkroom. This relationship with time connects directly to what I photograph, a memory that men and women keep alive, with the same rigour, every year, in the field.
"What the living history associations bring back to life in the field, I fix in place so it can cross time a second time."