One photographer's heartbreaking first-person account of WWI's Western Front

"An episode after the Battle of Zonnebeke." This image is a composite scene created from multiple negatives.

Image: Frank Hurley/State Library of New South Wales

James Francis "Frank" Hurley was 30 years old when he joined the Australian Imperial Force as an honorary captain and official photographer.

Before arriving on the Western Front in August 1917 to document the Third Battle of Ypres, Hurley had been no stranger to photographing under risky conditions. Less than one year earlier, he had returned to civilization after two years stranded on the pack ice of Antarctica with Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance, a desperate struggle for survival during which he managed to produce a stunning set of images. Read more...

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