In August 2010 I was asked by Milkcow magazine to review the 28th annual War & Peace Show, a 5 day-long Military vehicle and re-enactment event which takes place at The Hop Farm in Kent. The piece was written to accompany my photographs of the event.
When Union nurse Beatrice McDonald is rescued after a brutal assault near Fort Stedman, she finds herself tending to the dying in the last days of the Siege of Petersburg. Among them is a boy soldier who asks for stories from before the war — and Beatrice obliges, recounting a past shaped by two West Point brothers, Dante and Virgil Spears. Once inseparable, the brothers are now mortal enemies, torn apart by love, secrets, and war. One lies wounded in a Confederate hospital, the other forgotten in the hell of Andersonville prison. As the war barrels toward its bloody encounter at the Battle of the Crater, all three are swept into a reckoning not just with the war, but with themselves.
In 2004 a friend and colleague heard about my writing prowess and asked me to pen a couple of album
It all seems pretty crazy now thinking about it, just one of those stories you keep with you, one of
Written and filmed during my university course in 1996, “La Mechanique” is the tale of a recovering heroin addict coming
