Kriegsmarine in De Haan 1942

This page from a photo album shows the Kriegsmarine in De Haan, but no one knows who made it or when. What's interesting about this composition, at least for me, is the combination of photography and handwriting. It’s like the photographer made a series of black and white photographs and then arranged them in this very careful, precise layout on this page, and then wrote on it in white. It reminds me of how a painter might use collage. It’s interesting to see how the handwritten parts become almost like another layer of image making. I can imagine this artist, maybe they were a soldier, wanting to make something beautiful and precise even in a situation of conflict. They are in an ongoing conversation with others across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. I like the ambiguity and uncertainty, and I'm allowed to have multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.