The Crimean War was the first conflict to be documented by photographers in the modern sense, and where war photography was born as a genre. Historical events ceased to be portrayed by painters and engravers, and the depiction of reality was passed into the hands of the new “truthful” medium. Using the photos of Fenton, Robertson, Beato and Klembovsky as reference, Francesco Zizola reshot the same pictures today, maintaining – where possible – the same angle of the original. His images are presented alongside the originals in diptych-like montages, offering a striking evidence of how much the landscape has changed, and how many wounds it still retains.
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