
Bleed
- Publisher
- Dewi Lewis Publishing
- Year
- 2005
- ISBN
- 9781904587194
- Specifications
- Slipcased Hardcover
40 x 32 cm
64 pages
24 colour plates
Printed on 200gsm paper with matt and gloss varnishes
Winner of the 2002 European Publishers' Award for Photography
A haunting and beautiful limited edition book from the internationally respected photographer, Simon Norfolk. This is a very special publication. Published as a slip-cased hardback, the page size is a massive 400mm x 320mm. It is printed on extra weight 200gsm paper, and incorporates matt and gloss varnishes. It includes 24 colour plates. The war in Bosnia in the 1990s raised to common currency the terms ‘ethnic cleansing,’ and ‘humanitarian intervention’. It brought back to Europe a barbarism not seen since the Second World War; and was the first war fought very much under the eyes of the media. It was also the first conflict fought by killers who knew, even before the war had finished, that a war crimes tribunal awaited them. Norfolk’s photographs initially appear almost abstract. Yet through these still and beautiful images of ice, water, snow and the land, we can sense the arrogance of killers who believed they could conceal the brutal evidence of their crimes by reburying their victims in ‘secondary' graves. But over time secrets escape, and the truth bleeds out.