This started out as the top of an old toy box. I drew the magazine masthead on to the wood and the cover lines were enthusiastically graffitied by members of our staff. Some steak pie from Kensington Wholefoods was added before the thing was photographed. The pencil recess and shadows were magicked on afterwards by Hit and Run Media.
In the heart of the First World War’s battlefields, British and Australian soldiers visited a local amateur photographer to sit for souvenir portraits to be sent home as postcards. Nearly 100 years later, after some of the photographer’s glass plates were unearthed in northern France, The Independent published around 600 of them on its website. They were viewed online more than 1,700,000 times, but only four or five soldiers were identified.
Kevin Bayliss 