Two aircraft on flight line at night, military installation, Gulf
In 2007 Brown and Green were appointed as official war artists and spent six weeks visiting military installations and bases throughout the Middle East, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. Attached to the Australian Defence Force, they had privileged access to high security areas and were able to photograph the activities of Australian troops in great detail. The photograph ‘Two aircraft on flight line at night, military installation, Gulf’ shows maintenance work being carried out on a C3 Orion aircraft; a military plane specifically used for high altitude surveillance. Brown and Green used the lighting conditions of a nightshift in the hangar to emphasise the covert nature of these operations; the artists ‘spy on’ the military personnel from a distance, as they work in a pool of artificial light that draws them out of the darkness.
(2018)
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