Photography: Wildlife and War
The Natural History Museum and the Barbican set the standard for 2009
Hundreds of thousands have I seen flee thus… I am afraid that hundreds and hundreds of thousands more, who in other countries perhaps are still living comfortable lives, may soon find themselves enduring the same fate.” Robert Capa wrote this text when photographing refugees at a transit centre in Barcelona, January 15, 1939. The Spanish Civil War had been raging for three years and in nearby Germany a restless Adolf Hitler was on course to change the live of millions of comfortable families…
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