Autrement on devient fou.....

www.markusoberndorfer.com/autrement-on-devient-fou Monograph available here: www.markusoberndorfer.com/shop "Henri Lavrillat, a contemporary witness of Second World War was conscripted on 1st April 1943 and sent to work in compulsory work service on Cap Ferret after an amendment of the STO laws, which imposed a two-year obligation to work on all male French citizens. A campaign was organised to propagate the idea that the obligation was a 'civic duty' to support the joint fight of the French and the Germans against Bolshevism. At the same time, the French Resistance was gaining supporters and strength: one of the reasons for supporting the Resistance was the rejection of conscription. Quite a few conscripted workers escaped the STO by joining the Resistance, a fact also mentioned by Henri Lavrillat. Yet, after the war, STO workers were suspected of having been collaborators, not least because the strength of the Resistance had become a national myth. For this reason, many workers, maybe even Henri Lavrillat, have kept quiet about their time of compulsory work service to this day. By documenting the disappearance of the bunkers at Cap Ferret, or at least their transformation by graffiti, with his photographs, Markus Oberndorfer managed to bring these memories back and, to quote from Foukauld , bring them into the realm of the speakable." (Excerpt of: Inge Marszolek - Who built the Thebes of seven gates? from "Markus Oberndorfer: Autrement on dévient fou....., monograph, June 2014) * all images have been reproduced from photographic darkroom / analog c-prints.