Tag: war

  • #1530 Old Pictures

    #1530 Old Pictures

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    Family albums, photos pressed between the pages of a second-hand book, a photo on a postcard, a greying, dog eared picture on Tumblr. Old pictures are full of stories. They’re a window into another world, expressions frozen on faces, clothes just as they were. What can they show us? And what are they hiding?  …

  • #1519 War Stories

    #1519 War Stories

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    When we sent troops to fight in World War I the federated Australia was 13 years old. We thought we were invincible and we had something to prove, like most 13 year olds do. At the end of World War II we still didn’t know who we were. We clung to the idyllic myth of…