[ WAR BIRDS + FRIENDS ]

In the First and Second World Wars, armies on all sides used carrier pigeons as a means of communications, reconnaissance, and intelligence. There was also a booming business in gas masks for children and animals. This series plays with archival images of children and animals within various apparatus of wartime.

On Writers with Vaginas, Revolutions, North Africa, Silencers, the Secret Police, and Birds

February 11, 2011
Quintan Ana Wikswo (c) from SIX RANSOM NOTES CONCERNING THE DECAPITATED HEADS OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARIES

Lost and with few options, again and again I went into private Tunisian homes to find women who could give me directions. They were thrilled, warm, kind, shy at first but curious and deeply intelligent. Many had never seen a foreign woman before. They wanted to help. But they could not read or write...
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BumbleMoth (image by Paetrick Schmidt)
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