Toy Soldiers Book & Editioned Print

Toy Soldiers, blurs the boundaries between document, landscape and concept-based photography to explore this conflict. Examining the impact and potential consequences of the stalemate. Through real soldiers – posed as toy soldiers – he reveals the current situation in Western Sahara, a nation in waiting trapped in an historic cycle of colonial conflict, displacement and endless non-resolution.

The work is a unique collaboration with a military commander and the men under his command. Shot entirely on location in the isolated and hauntingly beautiful territory known as ‘Liberated Western Sahara’ Toy Soldiers provides a contemporary archive on the issue of non-resolution in Western Sahara and the paradigm of post colonial cycles of violence within modern conflicts.