soldiers

Essays
Gallipoli: Through the Soldier’s Lens

Gallipoli: Through the Soldier’s Lens

AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL - To mark the 100 years since Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) fought the Gallipoli campaign of WW1, Alison Wishart explores the remarkable photographic record left by the soldiers. Made possible by the birth of Kodak's portable camera, the photographs give a rare and intimate portrait of the soldier's day-to-day life away from the heat of battle. more

Soldiers of Misfortune: The Drawings of Urs Graf the Elder

Soldiers of Misfortune: The Drawings of Urs Graf the Elder

A mercenary and miscreant, the Swiss Renaissance artist Urs Graf lived the violence and vice he summoned on his drafting table. Miya Tokumitsu introduces us to his astonishing drawings of soldiers and sex workers, and finds an impotent melancholy within these often nightmarish scenes. more