Daugavpils Fortress II Photo

Photographer’s Note

Another view of the fortress at Daugavpils shown yesterday. I though something like suited one of the many moods the place generates.

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snunney (35564) 2007-03-30 9:07

Hello Richard,
Very creative image. I like the how the focus concentrates on the barbed wire yet we can still make out the fortress behind, somehow full of foreboding. The mood is intensified by the use of b&w. Well done.

flpanthers1 (390) 2007-03-30 9:10

Very interesting image. Very powerful. Sense of solitude, but yet meaningful. Thanks.

rushfan2112 (2965) 2007-03-30 11:51

Hi Richard, excellent and compelling image. Enough detail in the background to put two and two together and imagine what this place was like in its 'heyday'...! The B&W conversion is absolutely appropriate.

Even after all these years and all the stuff we learned at school, visions like this and the earlier photo never cease to amaze me as to how vicious and calculatingly cruel people can be.

TFS. Paul.

bantonbuju (48796) 2007-03-30 14:00

hi richard,
bravo! for the simplicity of this image which works so well...yesterday you mentioned it was also a prison during the communist times and the way you show the place - it perfectly portrays this...
bw, j.

Furachan (0) 2007-03-31 3:10

A fine shot, Richard, moody and harking back to darker times. Now having given us such a clevre, powerful shot, surely you'd want to share some of the wartime history of this pace in your notes...
Best,
Francis