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Diary Rooms - Being human on the front line in Afghanistan

Derek Eland
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In 2011 local multi-media artist Derek Eland worked as an official War Artist embedded with the British Army in Helmand, Afghanistan. Diary Rooms describes the results of Derek�s time there.
He visited Afghanistan to create a �Diary Room� experience for front line soldiers, both British and Afghan, by providing them with blank cards and offering them the opportunity to write down their immediate thoughts.
The stories and comments written on the cards are raw, honest and varied, from the remarkable to the mundane, the extraordinary to the everyday. The reality of everyday life for troops sits alongside emotional accounts written in the immediate aftermath of battle. Diary Rooms presents a collective self portrait of individual experiences on the front line of a contemporary conflict � with soldiers often referring to �two wars�, one involving bullets and bombs and the other which goes on in a soldiers head when everything goes quiet.

Publisher :	The Big Ideas Library
Published :	November 2014
Pages :	192p
Format :	Paperback; 246 x 189mm
Illustrations :	Colour photographs throughout
ISBN :	9780992985936

Diary Rooms - Being human on the front line in Afghanistan

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