Tag: war

  • From Beirut with Love – An Interview with Maher Attar

    written by alexgray on 2022-05-22 #culture #people #places
    From Beirut with Love – An Interview with Maher Attar

    Maher Attar shares with us his new project, Berytus…A Glorified City. Through the use of experimental Lomography techniques the former war photographer creates a powerful love letter to his home city of Beirut, and captures the feelings of a country in crisis.

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  • War memorial of Nice

    written by vicuna on 2008-10-06 #places
    War memorial of Nice

    You can find war memorials everywhere in France, every city or village has their own and they were mostly built after the WW1, as young people from everywhere in France died during this terrible war or collective massacre (over 1,5 million french victims and over 9 million victims in all...!)

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  • Freedom Square, Tblissi

    written by wil6ka on 2008-08-20 #places
    Freedom Square, Tblissi

    The war with big brother Russia is on. How stupid and probably how inevitable, sadly enough. And one spot, that is always in the news and makes this lomo-location so vivid, is the freedom square. The funny thing is, the face of the demonstrations change its face at all times. One year ago I witnessed a demonstration against saakashvilli. Now, with the war in the back, he has somehow united the country from within. This looked differently half a year ago:

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  • The Spirits of Fort Delaware

    written by ipdegirl on 2011-11-02 #places
    The Spirits of Fort Delaware

    Fort Delaware, a notoriously haunted military fortress built around 1817, served as a prison during the US Civil War. Much suffering and death occurred at this site, located on an island in the Delaware River. When my daughter's fifth grade class took a field trip there, I jumped at the chance to play ghost hunter. Here's what I found.