Category: Civil Wars

Near Bernauer Strasse, two boys lock arms in a rough, almost playful grapple on the western side of the Berlin Wall, their checkered shirts and tense shoulders filling the foreground. Behind them rises a harsh lattice of barbed wire and fencing, a makeshift geometry of division that turns an ordinary scrap into something staged by…

Against the hard slab of the Berlin Wall, a small child crouches near a tree in Wedding, turning a bleak border zone into a makeshift playground. Barbed wire crowns the concrete, and the ground below—strewn with rubble and broken pavement—suggests a city still living with daily division. The contrast is striking: the child’s absorbed play…

Richard D. Dunphy stands in a studio setting with a steady, direct gaze, dressed in a long dark coat over a neatly fastened shirt and tie. The plain backdrop, patterned floor, and an ornate chair at the edge of the frame place the portrait firmly in the world of 19th-century photography, where formal poses and…

Leaning on a pair of wooden crutches, Private Lewis Francis stands in his Union uniform with a weary steadiness that feels hard-won. The studio setting is plain, yet his posture and the careful arrangement of gear beside him turn the portrait into a quiet statement about survival. Details like the cap, dark jacket, and light…

A polished wooden case lies open to reveal the blunt realities of wartime medicine: an amputation saw with a heavy handle, long knives, forceps, and slender probes arranged in fitted compartments. The deep lining and careful layout suggest a kit built for speed and order, the kind of portable toolkit a field surgeon could reach…

A young soldier sits bare-chested against a plain studio backdrop, his posture steady, his expression unreadable. One arm ends in a healed amputation below the elbow, the limb angled across his torso as if to make the fact impossible to ignore. At the bottom of the frame, a small board bears handwritten identification, the kind…

Along a dusty country road, a line of cars and a lone motorbike stretch into the distance, suggesting the hurried logistics of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. In the foreground, several men sit close together, wrapped in heavy blankets or capes, their faces turned toward one another as if trading news, reassurances, or dark…

Dust rises under a column of armed men as they move along a sunlit track toward a base camp near Santa Maria, north-west of Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War. The camera meets them head-on, catching faces in mid-stride—some intent, some weary—while rifles and kit ride high on shoulders and belts. Behind the marching line,…

Rubble fills a narrow street in Guernica, where shattered masonry and broken beams spill outward from hollowed buildings. Jagged facades stand like torn pages, their windows erased and walls blackened, while the roadway disappears under a rough carpet of debris. The stark emptiness—no traffic, no ordinary movement—underscores the suddenness with which everyday urban life can…

Along the prison wall in Barcelona, a dense crowd presses into the curve of the street, bodies packed shoulder to shoulder as if the city itself has come to wait. From an elevated viewpoint, the line of people forms a dark, rippling mass against the pale roadway, while the stone façade with its arched openings…