About Recovering The Past:
In 1917 the Great War escalated in Flanders into a Total War. Science, technology, industry, economy and society were the cogwheels of a war machine going at full speed.
Recovering The Past is an innovative photographic project of 25 striking and thought provoking images which portrays a journey of human dedication of two distinct parties with origins a century apart, yet who are united through a disastrous conflict. The thematic exhibition in the Royal Hall of the In Flanders Fields Museum gives the visitor a general introduction to the Mine Battle of Messines and the Third Battle of Ypres.
Ian Alderman has combined artistic inspiration gleaned from the work of Australian artistic and cultural icons Frank Hurley and Will Longstaff by using modern digital manipulation techniques to montage images of Australian Imperial Force personnel into his own photographs of the bomb disposal operations of DOVO-SEDEE.
A complex project, over 5 years in the making, ‘Recovering The Past’ has been produced with the commemorations of The Great War at its heart.
Seventeen images, produced as high-quality Lambda C-type prints, will be on exhibition to the public from 3rd June to 31st December 2017 at the eminent ‘In Flanders Fields’ Museum, Ypres.
About Ian Alderman:
Born in Eastleigh near Winchester, UK, Ian discovered and subsequently developed his passion for photography through a desire to capture the drama of ‘the great outdoors’.
On graduating from the renowned Blackpool And The Fylde photography course in 1992, Ian worked predominantly in assisting and production roles within the corporate and advertising photography genre.
“Subsequent and extensive work as both a photographer and location scout have given me a broad background from which to produce projects such as ‘Recovering The Past’.” Ian comments.
Inspired by the brilliance and philosophy of photographers such as Cartier Bresson, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, O Winston Link, and Frank Hurley, his work continues to evolve.
Ian Alderman ‘Recovering The Past’ Exhibition
3 June – 31 December 2017
In Flanders Fields Museum
Grote Markt 34
8900 Ieper