This is the only image that came out of this roll of film and it reminded me of the Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin series The day nobody died basically re-framing war photography which I really enjoyed please check them out all their works are really cool...
Text from their site about this work:
"In June of 2008 Broomberg and Chanarin traveled to Afghanistan to be
embedded with British Army units on the front line in Helmand Province.
In place of their cameras they took a roll of photographic paper 50
meters long and 76.2 cm wide contained in a simple, lightproof cardboard
box. They arrived during the deadliest month of the war. On the first
day of their visit a BBC fixer was dragged from his car and executed and
nine Afghan soldiers were killed in a suicide attack. The following
day, three British soldiers died, pushing the number of British combat
fatalities to 100. Casualties continued until the fifth day when nobody
died. In response to each of these events, and also to a series of more
mundane moments, such as a visit to the troops by the Duke of York and a
press conference, all events a photographer would record, Broomberg and
Chanarin instead unrolled a seven-meter section of the paper and
exposed it to the sun for 20 seconds. The results - seen here - deny the
viewer the cathartic effect offered up by the conventional language of
photographic responses to conflict and suffering."
35mm
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