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The exhibition A World Between Cannons to be displayed on Varde Artillery Museum in 2015, a Danish

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18. March 2014 [Reporter] Gunpowder smoke can be tasted in the air and pressure from the firing of 42 kg heavy shells throwing twigs and bark several feet into the air on the military training near Esbjerg. Here, the photographic artist Morten Barker around with his camera to gather material for his works. Kunsten.nu was with.
In the following silence spreads a soft light down over the sandy heathland near Esbjerg before the white phosphorus shells appears as a falling star image with white røghaler. Orange, seller concession yellow and gray colors indicate sand, heather and puddles.
The scenery is poetic and beautiful, but the purpose bloody: When artillery in Oksbol lights up the sky with garnet constellations, it is too easy to hit their targets with the 42 kg heavy shells loaded with 22 kg of dynamite, sent from haubtiskanonerne 15 km further inland .
Reflection between windbreaks seller concession and guns Morten Barker is excited on a hilltop and weapons shooting with the camera. He is also working on three different projects in their own way raises the Danish war participation and this neglected soldiering that takes place just behind the privet hedge in peripheral Denmark close to the peaceful greenhouses and picturesque resorts:
The exhibition A World Between Cannons to be displayed on Varde Artillery Museum in 2015, a Danish project on the Danish landscape and finally - thanks for that artillery allows the runaway camera-action-man running seller concession around among them during the exercises - documentation images of soldiers seller concession everyday with explosions, rigorous uplinet seller concession stock and SMS to his wife during breaks.
Barker has for five years photographed military exercises seller concession and traces them around in the Danish nature. With the works he wants to draw attention to the Danish war participation around the world, who are usually stored away by politicians.
During the work it is important to be quick and capture moments - and projectiles - as they arise, but also to keep a certain distance and not get too drengerøvs like excited.
Barker's goal is not sensation, seller concession but a more neutral, poetic expression, which calls for reflection rather than criticizes - and which is charged with more than just explosives. Among other things, therefore seller concession he uses often several months to "acclimate" after the exercises before he begins to piece together his works of the photographic material. seller concession
Right now, however, the collection, it comes. He presses eye to the viewfinder, take a few photos of garnet formation, sets quickly apparatus, photographing again and when to catch the light before it burns out.
So reads a hissing howling high in the sky, and the camera is turned quickly with sound direction. On the horizon disclosed the fog of a bright orange flash of light before the delayed blast and the nudge from the pressure wave follows. Click!
Morten Barker leder efter motiver i et læhegn, som dækker for en stilling med soldater og pjecer - solddaterslang for kanoner. Foto: Kirstine Bruun
Inventory seller concession It has taken Barker six months and several thousand images to be accepted among the soldiers, but now he is almost

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