Duitse militairen 1940 - 1945

This is a page from an anonymous photo album, bearing images of German soldiers. These aren’t snapshots, they’re carefully framed. There is a formality to them. The grey tones create a somber mood. The soldiers are out on the street or standing on the steps of what is possibly a house. I wonder who took these photos, what their relationship to these soldiers was, and what this album represented to them. Think about that moment of clicking the shutter. It’s so deliberate. The photographer has decided to preserve that moment, to hold onto it, and to show it to others in the future. They might have wanted to capture a moment of pride, of triumph, of camaraderie... or something else entirely. Ultimately, art is a human endeavor, an attempt to make sense of the world and our place within it. And in that sense, even the simplest snapshot can become a powerful statement about what it means to be human.