Le Cool

exhibition In Harm's Way

What do you get when you mix a Royal Marine, a camera and a light bulb? OK – there’s no light bulb, just the camera and the Marine. You get some of the best images of the human face of war in Afghanistan and the chance to see for the first time the soldier’s perspective of fighting a war with no end. From mid-November the images will be on billboards in many of the London Underground tube stations. So instead of mindlessly staring at advertisements and promotions for this or that we can see and remind ourselves of the reality of life for a soldier in Helmand and the vast difference between our daily routines. The images exhibited were taken by Sean Power who was embedded with a forward unit over a three-week period in October and form part of his portfolio as the official Royal Legion photographer. So next time you are waiting for a tube to work you might be face-to-face with a soldier thousands of miles away carrying out his job, but unlike us he won’t be able to go home at the end of the day. / Sophie Khan
where
London Underground stations & Gallery 27, 27 Cork Street, W1S 3NG

when
10am-6pm

how much
Free