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'This is War' is the photo book debut by Spanish-american Magnum photographer Moises SAMAN, a young and talented photographer with the rare capacity to capture, in an instant, a powerful composition with great artistic sensibility. In this volume, three fronts torn apart by the non-stop beat of war: Iraq, blackened by the smoke of bomb raids. The harrowing cohabitation with war in Palestine. The dust and silence of a devastated Afghanistan. This personal testimony transforms him into a 'Witness to Man's Destruction'. Through his photography we see again the terrifying purport of war, the truth of what it means to LIVE with conflict.
Content
In the out-of-print photo volume 'This is War', the lens of Moises SAMAN shows us war for what is truly is: pain, destruction, darkness. His pictures are far from the reality that the media now dispenses to us in terms of a giant movie projection; a hyper-technical video-game, a glossy and rigged TV production.