Champs de bataille brings together around 250 photographs of battlefields, showing these landscapes where men fought, suffered and died.

“Why and how to photograph war?
A desire to inform, to participate in the movement of history? How to tell the unspeakable – images of horror follow images of horror. The spectacularization of the world by television, the press, the Internet and real-time information have eroded our capital of empathy and our ability to be moved by the misfortune of others.
In 2004, with a Deardorff 20 × 25 camera, I began a series on battlefields. Did these places still tell the story? Without giving in to raw emotion, I wanted to address the conscience, to show through sometimes trivial landscapes a “geography” of human madness.
I have traveled the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific Ocean, Africa, America, Asia. Some sites are duly listed, marked, others deserve meticulous work of investigation and localization – some States do not seem keen to commemorate defeats or else have amnesia… » - Yan Morvan