“It was afterwards that we heard the whispers about the oil and that’s when I thought, fuckinghell I might be on the wrong side”
Written by duckrabbitIts very hard to keep an audience glued to your photofilm unless you offer them a gripping opening 30 seconds and openings don’t get stronger then in Florence Royer’s photofilm about one soldier’s attempts to come to terms with life after combat in Iraq.
Florence was one of the students at LCC last year who benefited from duckrabbit’s photofilm training. As a piece of feature journalism, it doesn’t get much stronger then this.
Raw, real and essential viewing. Please, please share on Facebook and Twitter.
Author — duckrabbit
duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White. We specialize in digital storytelling.
Discussion (6 Comments)
Such an important story, that needs to get out there much more!
A job well done Florence.
Thanks Margo … it really is a very thought provoking film.
Essential. Martin certainly isn’t the only guy going through this. His story (and that of others like him) cannot be told too many times.
People are fragile. Even the toughest soldiers.
Excellent piece. But so many, many, many of these PTSD stories don’t have happy endings. Soldiers are treated as valuable commodities until they leave the service, whether under their own power or via the operating table- then they’re relegated to the pieces of meat they have always been viewed as. An ages old story regardless of country, century or conflict.