"During the spring of 2011, Guy Martin travelled to Egypt and Libya to record the unfolding Arab Spring. On Wednesday 20 April, he was severely injured during a rocket attack by Gaddafi's loyalists in the centre of Mistrata.
University College Falmouth's School of Media & Performance presents Shifting Sands, an exhibition of the work produced by Guy alongside a series of events highlighting the heavy price that can be paid by frontline photojournalists in the cause of documenting a country and its people's struggle for freedom."
Text copied from the Exhibition Leaflet
I found this quite a difficult exhibition to view because of its content. I do not have any wish myself to do photojournalism. I would find it much too difficult to be in war torn countries, seeing and documenting such tragic sights of dead bodies and carnage.
This exhibition is excellent. The photographs, vivid pictures shot by Guy Martin, captured the grief, the pain and the destruction of the countries he recorded. I can not imagine the dangers photographers like Guy Martin expose themselves too when they embark on these hazardous missions. I admire their courage.
This exhibition is in remembrance of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, two of Guy's friends who were killed in the rocket attack that injured Guy.
With thanks to http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2011/12/24/images-from-the-frontline-guy-martins-shifting-sands-in-falmouth/ for this image
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