Combining Famous 'War Photographer' and Stephen J Shanabrook's work

One of my three focus artists, Stephen J Shanabrook, looks at unveiling the 'horrors' of war and conflict through the use of associational objects and materials with comfort and health, such as chocolate, and using these materials to paint "the ugly truth" and to emphasise the disturbing nature, highlighted through the use of disrupting our comfort. In my opinion this is used to show us how we have comforts in this country, however those inflicted by war and conflict are forced away from their comforts such as their home, shelter, bed etc.

In one of the few exhibitions that Shanabrook has in the UK, he's used chocolate to show his depiction of a war photo of a child dying on the floor, hit by a roadside bomb. The use of this material is for the point made above, and to show the art slowly melt, to show how the child is slowly dying.

"On the road to heaven, highway to hell"

I could combine Shanabrook's art to James Nachtwey, a famous war photographer's work, in which he is famous for traveling to the most hostile locations to capture the effects of war and conflict on the innocent people, the everyday residents of the country who are displaced and stricken by war physically.

A few images of James Nachtwey's work.