The Unreturning focuses on Remembrance – taking its name from a poem by Wilfred Owen, the Shropshire First World War poet.
Images coming soon…
The poem, like much of Owen’s, was published posthumously as Owen was killed in action on 4 November 1918 – just one week before the armistice.
Each one whom Life exiled I named and called. From The Unreturning by Wilfred Owen
The Unreturning project includes pictures from Ypres (taken on the weekend of 11/11/11), Tyne Cot Cemetery and at the D-Day 60, D-Day 70 and D-Day 75 commemorations in Portsmouth.
My intention had been to complete this project in 2020 by recording the commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of the ending of the Second World War, but Coronavirus (Covid-19) prevented that.
These images represent and uncurated collection of images. At the end of the project, I will curate a collection of images that, when considered together, best represent the project.
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All images © W N BISHOP