“Not tonight Josephine” we all know that quote don’t we? Napoleon is credited with going for a fight rather than having a night of passion with his lover and glad to say he lost too. But what he should have said was “how about on Thursday”. Ok so he would have missed that date too due to being somewhat dead but that’s not what I’m getting at.
You can spend an evening with Josephine, Napoleon and a host of participants from the battle of Waterloo here in London this Thursday thanks to the amazing time travelling photographer Sam Faulkner as he hosts a curators talk at his exhibition “Unseen Waterloo: The Conflict Revisited” in the Terrace room at Somerset House.
Sam has been traveling back in time to the battlefield at Waterloo for the last 5 years using Pixipixel equipment to help. Now don’t get excited we only offer our time travel equipment to a few people because most of them want to travel back to a point before the invoice and that doesn’t really work for us I’m afraid.
Sam has spent the last few years attending the annual Waterloo re-enactment in Belgium and using his “battlefield” studio has created a series of breathtaking images of the participants looking magnificent in historically accurate uniforms.
His Images transport us back 200 odd years to a time before war photographers existed and painters weren’t quick enough to catch the action.
Eighty life-sized portraits are on display hung against a backdrop of Hainsworth scarlet fabric (the very same as used to dress the British Redcoats in the battle) they evoke the forgotten faces of the battle and cause us to re-imagine moments of hope, glory and defeat. Curated by Patrick Kinmonth (international stage director and designer).
The exhibition is also stunningly captured in a book of the same name that it should grace every coffee table.
We at Pixipixel are so delighted to see our equipment being put to use on such a creative and worthwhile project and with such a stunning end result, its hard to imagine that Sam could have taken any better pictures even if we could have sent him all the way back in time.
So if you like great images, history, battles or just want to treasure an English win (we don’t get that many) then get yourself along to Somerset House.
Opening times for the exhibition are 10 am to 6 pm most days and the talk from the photographer himself this Thursday 13th August is from 3 pm for 45 mins.
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