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Alastair Thain

Royal Marines photographed seconds

after they completed a forced march

at a commando centre in Devon, 2004.

 

Blow-up

Alastair Thain's images,

of soldiers and stars, deserts and city streets,

are united by their off-kilter take.

As he closes in,

the photographs become ever bigger,

with ever more pitiless detail.

Melissa Denes asks why

The Guardian        Weekend

pp. 22-23

Saturday January 7, 2006

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/jan/07/
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