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Conflict, Time, Photography is a large scale group exhibition that opens at Tate
Modern, London, on 26 November 2014 and continues until 15 March 2015.
tate.org.ukCONFLICT, TIME, PHOTOGRAPHY AT TATE MODERN
Evidence 14 from Evidence 2012-13, courtesy of the artist.© Diana Matar1914 the railway was almost complete.
However, with the outbreak of World
War I, it became a prime target, and under
the instruction of TE Lawrence, Arab
guerrillas destroyed the railway in an
attempt to cripple the Ottoman Empire’s
transport infrastructure. By the end of the
war, amidst the break-up of the Ottoman
Empire, the project was abandoned. Schulz-
Dornburg travelled by car along the route
of the railway, taking images along the way,
occasionally coming across tracks emergingfrom the sand but, for the most part, all
that remained was the stations, uniform
rectangular buildings, simple in design,
standing tall against the vast flat desert.
The exhibition concludes with works
primarily by emerging contemporaryphotographers made ‘100 years later’ after
events which took place during World
War I, suggesting that even a century
later the subject still holds relevance,
particularly when approached with the
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