To the Bitter End – Emanoel Lee

To the Bitter End by Emanoel Lee is written around a unique collection of photographs taken during the Boer War, the majority previously unpublished. When the war started, light, simple Kodak cameras had recently come on the market, and for the first time, events could be seen through the lens of the amateur photographer. Yet very few of these amateur pictures were published at the time, despite the appearance of numerous publications featuring professional photographs of the war. Here, however, posed official war photographs are replaced by startling images of real-life bloodshed, military incompetence, and civilian suffering, taken by those most closely involved.