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Ian Alderman

@IAlderman

London based commercial photographer with a huge interest in WW1, its consequences and ongoing impact today. Visit https://nitter.gq/t.co/c0l8UDO2yv

 London, England
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Joined June 2011
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Happy International Archives Day! 🎉 @ICRC archives collect and preserve ICRC documents dating from the 1860s to today, and make those until 1975 available for research. They comprise of around 6,700 linear meters of textual records, photographs, and more icrc.org/en/archives
4.07.2016, ICRC. Geneva, international museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. An ICRC archivist is working in the middle of the archives of the international prisoners of war agency created during the First World war. Photographed by Alderman, Ian.

ALT 4.07.2016, ICRC. Geneva, international museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. An ICRC archivist is working in the middle of the archives of the international prisoners of war agency created during the First World war. Photographed by Alderman, Ian.

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6 years and 18 venues into @recoveringthepast nationwide tour of Australia.Its @genesisimaging supplied C-type prints still look amazing after thousands of miles shipping between venues.Great job Genesis! Still unique,the long-term social & physical consequences of war laid bare
Exhibition's impressive lead panel, courtesy of the venue #shrineofremembrance

ALT Exhibition's impressive lead panel, courtesy of the venue #shrineofremembrance

Teh lead image, an A0 fine-art C-type print

ALT Teh lead image, an A0 fine-art C-type print

25 large-format prints, of this internationally exhibited work

ALT 25 large-format prints, of this internationally exhibited work

One final Australian venue left, the end of an almighty tour for the work; supposedly the longest running tour of any exhibition in Australia

ALT One final Australian venue left, the end of an almighty tour for the work; supposedly the longest running tour of any exhibition in Australia

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@recoveringthepast #photoexhibition now open at #shrineofremembrance #Melbourne! A poignant study of the long-term social and physical consequences of war | artist will be representing the work in-person from 20th April - 19th May. Artist led tours available
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Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
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Can't wait! My @recoveringthepast exhibition opens @shrineofremembrance #Melbourne 1st April - 29th Sept 2024 | The long-term social and physical consequences of war are laid bare through this striking work. pdf link below, artist led tours available drive.google.com/file/d/1Zk1…
The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, host venue of Recovering The Past 1st April - 29th September 2024

ALT The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, host venue of Recovering The Past 1st April - 29th September 2024

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Remembering both past and present; a newly crafted image for #RemembranceDay, and a timely nod of acknowledgment to the relentless, ongoing work of #eod #bombdisposal teams around the world. Belgium’s #dovosedee in these 2 pics, my respect to the EOD community at-large.
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Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
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My newest book, on the British West Indies Regiment, has now been published with Pen&Sword. pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Brit…
The British West Indies Regiment

The British West Indies Regiment

This is a military-political history with a vital and all-pervading cultural and social theme which shapes the narrative - race, colour and prejudice. But despite…

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Not far from Tyne Cot Cemetery and the New Zealand Memorial in Zonnebeke a First World War ammunition dump with 80 live shells waw incovered. They included phosgene gas shells. Smoke but no harm. Some houses evacuated for a short period. vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/05/24/…
Munitiestortplaats met 80 bommen uit Eerste Wereldoorlog opgeruimd in Zonnebeke | VRT NWS Nieuws

Munitiestortplaats met 80 bommen uit Eerste Wereldoorlog opgeruimd in Zonnebeke  | VRT NWS Nieuws

In de Schipstraat in Zonnebeke is een munitiestortplaats uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog ontdekt. De brandweer kreeg om 13 uur een oproep voor een rokende bom, maar trof een munitiedump aan met 38...

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Faces of WW2. Pensive, apprehensive, cheerful. Who knows their stories? We cannot know - perhaps will never know - from photos so long separated from family. But they are Everyman. And we should remember them, #RemembranceDay
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Autumn, France & Belgium,#ironharvest time again. Year on year, thousands of unexploded #WW1 shells emerge from the ground. Also a consequence of every war fought since and likely those to come; the message of forward-looking @recoveringthepast #photoexhibition
The essential cleaning of a WW1 shell so as to enable its full-identification.

ALT The essential cleaning of a WW1 shell so as to enable its full-identification.

Selection of recovered WW1 munitions from West Flanders former WW1 battlefields, contemporary gas mask a pertinent reminder of the still lethal contents of these shells.

ALT Selection of recovered WW1 munitions from West Flanders former WW1 battlefields, contemporary gas mask a pertinent reminder of the still lethal contents of these shells.

Recovered from the Somme by French deminers, a recovered German large caliber shell awaits destruction.

ALT Recovered from the Somme by French deminers, a recovered German large caliber shell awaits destruction.

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Preet Lidder@lidderpr19 Oct 2022
#Science and knowledge need to transcend disciplinary and sectoral boundaries to have impact at scale. @Magda_Skipper #SIF2022 @FAOScienceChief
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a huge fire broke out on the #Karst, south Gorizia. Dangerous detonations on the ground due to #WW1 remnants💥
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Image from andyblanck (@andyblanck1)
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Great new display for #recoveringthepast in #HughSawreyGallery,longreach,QLD. Located within #Australianstockmanshalloffame and soon to be viewed by its 81,000th visitor, am still amazed at the ongoing success of the work! #dovosedee #recoveringthepast
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Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
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In Flanders Fields One team, one location. #BEL #EOD #CoyPoelkapelle
Image from DOVO - SEDEE - Belgian EOD (@dovo_sedee)
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Another great display for @recoveringthepast. 3235 visitors viewed the work at #riddochartsandculturalcentre, taking its total visitor count to beyond 80,000. The long-term #consequencesofwar which this work explores are sadly and once again, daily news #dovosedee #EOD #PTSD
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Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
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Port Piries's 'The Recorder' review's display of Recovering The Past.Exhibition now been on continuous AU display for 3.5 years now,an unexpected achievement! portpirierecorder.com.au/sto… #DOVO #SEDEE #BelEOD #EOD #PTSD #photoexhibition
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Poignant display of original #WW1 grave markers at #Salisburycathedral Considering how many of these markers were originally made, I wonder how many survive today?
Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
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A great eve at the launch of @DomDendooven new book Asia In Flanders Fields, a study of the Chinese and Indian contribution to the Great War's Western front from 1914-1920. buff.ly/30fE9hb
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Image from Ian Alderman (@IAlderman)
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Inexplicable cultural vandalism. A totally unique #WW1 relic now scheduled for demolition. Link to petition below, please sign bit.ly/3dSyNvv
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My book 'Asia in Flanders Fields. Indians and Chinese on the Western Front, 1914-20' will be launched at the National Army Museum on 16 December. All welcome. nam.ac.uk/whats-on/asia-flan…
Asia in Flanders Fields

Asia in Flanders Fields

Dominiek Dendooven launches his new book exploring what life was like for Chinese and Indians serving on the Western Front.

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Towering tribute to Aboriginal Soldiers: abc.net.au/news/2021-05-27/h…
This towering tribute to five Aboriginal soldiers gives them a long overdue place in history

This towering tribute to five Aboriginal soldiers gives them a long overdue place in history

Artist Tom Day returns to Gunditjmara Country in south-west Victoria to help paint a 30-metre-high mural of his great-grandfather and great uncles, granting them the place in history they have long...

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