Sometimes I take photographs as visual notes about things I might later develop into written pieces or photoessays – or they might just stay as a reminder or record of something that I found interesting. This video is bit more than that, but it’s not a finished piece and might never be. Rather, it’s a bit of a ‘research’ video for my on-going thingy about memorials…
There has been an explosion (pun intended) in the number of memorials to the dead of WW1 and 2 and to recent victims of terrorism. There is a conscious attempt to link the two and portray the U.S. “War On Terror” (next stop North Korea) as being linked with the “just war” (WW2).
Any debate about the justification and motives behind this is shut down by accusations of “disrespecting ‘our’ troops” or being “unpatriotic”.
I went back to London where I had written about the memorials at Hyde Park Corner in ‘A Walk In The Park’ (2016) and observed how the public interacted with these newer memorials and compared it to how they interacted to the Remembrance service held at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, which I had attended last November.
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