The exhibition “Personal War” by Edvard Kaprov opened today in the gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo.
Kaprov is originally from the USSR and lives in Israel. About the photos created in Ukraine using the colloidal process, he says that the country where he was born disappeared from the world map more than 30 years ago.
“My homeland broke into fragments of various sizes like a huge mirror. All values and symbols were destroyed with it. The Second World War remained the last “sacred cow”. So for me it became a personal war. I decided to film the latest war using the first photographic technique. I wanted to close a certain logical circle. After all, the first documented war was the Crimean War in the middle of the 19th century,” said Kaprov.
With the beginning of this war, he bought a Ford Transit in Germany, turned it into a mobile laboratory and crossed several borders, to the front line.
“I decided to sacrifice the “decisive moment” to capture time on fragile pieces of glass. The face of the latest war,” Kaprov added.
The collodion process is the earliest photographic process. It requires photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed in a span of fifteen minutes, requiring a portable darkroom for use in the field.
