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Unseen Waterloo: The Conflict Revisited- 1815 Edition
Unseen Waterloo: The Conflict Revisited book by Sam Faulkner accompanies photography exhibition of the same name at Somerset House to coincide with the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo.
From 2009, multi-award winning photographer Sam Faulkner travelled to the annual re-enactment in Belgium to photograph the 'soldiers', dressed in the historically accurate uniforms created with painstaking attention to detail for the event.
From his pop-up studio situated on the battlefield, he has made dramatic and painterly portraits which evoke the forgotten faces of Waterloo and reimagine moments of glory, of hope and defeat.
'Waterloo is often cast as a battle between Great Men and certainly we've all seen the grand paintings of Napoleon and Wellington from the conflict. However we don't have personal images of the men who actually fought and died that day’, said Sam Faulkner.
Published on 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo the book accompanied the 12 week exhibition at Somerset House designed and curated by Patrick Kinmonth.
The beautiful cover design is a foil blocked map of the Waterloo battlefield on blue cloth.