For an assignment depicting how a space becomes a place I reviewed a project I had undertaken eight years ago when I made an HLF Oral History film about WW11. I had talked to a number of past residents of Sudbourne who were able to recall how as small children they, with their families, were evacuated from Sudbourne. The area was commandeered during the war as a Battle Training Area. For my new photographic project I explored the same area. The villagers had returned in 1948 and the surrounding area is now farmed or forested. I looked for ways to link the past with this present. I started by making a monochrome portfolio of current landscape looking for the areas where we known the army trained. I next superimposed small photographs taken during WW11. This was an exercise for education purpose which I submitted as a final set of prints entitled 'Lest We Forget'..

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