From On
the way to an ambush /
above image available in an edition of 100, with book and DVD
On the way to an ambush /
book + print + DVD
From On
the way to an ambush /
above image available in an edition of 100, with book and DVD
On the way to an ambush /
book + print + DVD
On
the way to an ambush
Bruce Connew
Photographs and text / Bruce Connew
Design and typography / Catherine Griffiths
Published by / Victoria University Press, April 1999 / ISBN 0 86473 376 3
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Regular edition OUT-OF-PRINT. On the way to an ambush is now available as a signed, numbered, limited edition of 100, multi-media package of book + archival print + DVD, encased in a felt sleeve
Signed, numbered, limited
edition of 100 / Softback with flaps / 176 pages / 55 duotones / 30 colour
images / 210 x 150mm / English / Printed by Graphic Press, NZ
Signed, numbered, limited edition of
100 pigment print of cover image on archival Hahnemuhle cotton rag 308gsm
paper / image size 100 x 150mm
46-minute narration and slide show with
soundtrack by Alfredo Ibarra
On the way to an ambush is a series exhibited first at War Photo Limited, Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2008.
“In 1989, New Zealand photographer Bruce Connew spent five weeks in Burma, observing the Karen people’s war with the Burmese government troops. At first glance, Connew’s journey was completely crazy and impulsive. A photographer leaves his children in the care of a friend and hops a plane to a little reported war he caught a glimpse of on television. On his return to New Zealand, he succumbed to virulent malaria. His photographs and notes were put aside and almost forgotten - until several years later when fresh news of the struggle reawakened Connew’s interest in the Karen's tragedy, and also caused him to question his own actions and motivations. This is not your average, every day idea of escapism. What emerges is a traveller’s story - a marvellous pastiche of personal insight, memoir and visual depiction. Central to to all its parts is Connew’s recent loss of his wife in a road crash. Death and its random, sudden occurrence is Connew’s subject. His narrative moves easily between the Auckland suburbs and the towns and trenches near the Thai border. On one level then this is a journey through grief and loss mediated through an expedition with a guerilla party to ambush a truckload of young Burmese conscripts. The book is peopled with brilliantly drawn characters, like the Karen soldiers Tee Moo and Captain Walter, an odd assortment of tourists and WWII veterans on nostalgic return trips, and above all Colonel Travis, the New Zealand mercenary who leads the ambush party.” LLOYD JONES, author Biografi, The Book of Fame, Mr Pip
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