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Jens Bruggemann has achieved an impressive degree of perfection in lighting and processing techniques. This, together with an excellent eye for models and situations makes his photographs not only attractive but exciting and full of surprises. His beautiful models, almost all of them amateurs, show - hidden so far - the most intimate part of their personality, eroticism.

This comprehensive photobook publication presents a retrospective overview of the work of Paul M. Smith, a British photographer and pioneer in combining documentary photography with theatrical and digital manipulation. Smith challenges traditional notions of photography and realism by placing his own body and staged scenarios at the centre of his images, with themes ranging from war and masculinity to identity and performance. The photographs are carefully constructed and offer a critical and visually challenging perspective on the boundaries between truth and artificial construction in contemporary photography.

'I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and dropped breathless into a shell hole headlong onto a German who had been dead for months.' Harold Drinkwater was not supposed to go to war. He was told he was half an inch too short. But, determined to fight for king and country, he found a battalion that would take him and was soon on his way to the trenches of the Somme. As the war dragged on, Harry saw most of the men he joined up with killed around him. But, somehow, he survived. Soldiers were forbidden from keeping a diary so Harry wrote his in secret, recording the horrendous conditions and constant fear, as well as his pleasure at receiving his officer's commission, the joy of his men when they escaped the trenches for the Italian Front and the trench raid for which he was awarded the Military Cross. Harry writes with such immediacy it is easy to forget that a hundred years have passed. He is by turns wry, exhausted, annoyed, resigned and often amazed to be alive. Never before published, Harry's War is a moving testament to one man's struggle to keep his humanity in the face of unimaginable violence.