![]() ![]() That’s not enough to get him out of his chair. Any distractions and a disembodied voice barks “Continue working, CONTINUE WORKING NOW.” It’s not like he can afford to not do the job that keeps his air flowing his meals coming and and push-button supersuit (he can shower inside it and never take it off) operating.īut one distraction jolts him. ![]() It’s just that not enough happens.Įditor turned director and co-writer Benjamin Duffield serves up a new version of the post-apocalyptic dystopia, limited in perspective and scope, but myopic, faintly paranoid and competently acted.Īn older man tells us this story in voice over, about the days, nights and years when he life in a “sanctuary pod,” cubicle-sized self-contained apartments where people like him stayed in the same chair all day, eating meals, playing games, sending texts to his mom in a separate pod and working - remote control operating front-end loaders for the mining that produces the minerals needed to make sanctuary pods more efficient.ĭarwin (Nick Krause) has been in his pod nine years, since “the greatest war of all” killed most of humanity and made the Earth uninhabitable. What’s here is perfectly, if a tad blandly, realized. The exhibition runs through August 15, 2022.There isn’t much to “2149: The Aftermath,” another entry in the dreaded, cinema-consuming “YA-sci-fi” genre. “I don’t know how he did it, or a lot of those guys did it.” “When I look at what he did and how he managed, I just shake my head,” he said. Clark says that when he looks at the pictures, in addition to seeing the suffering they document, he can’t help but think of his father as a young man, traversing a war-ravaged Europe and taking in all this horror. The pictures in this exhibition capture scenes from Berlin and Nuremburg, as well as Warsaw and other parts of Poland. Clark remembers that in the 1960s his father would say of the those advocating for the Vietnam War, “If they had seen firsthand what war was, they wouldn’t be so quick to be bombing people.” Clark said in a phone interview that although his father didn’t talk much about the specifics of what he had witnessed during World War II, he was unmistakably anti-war. After McCombe had traded in cameras and far-flung assignments for apples and peaches and berries, he didn’t look back. “Instead of a recollection of the past, it is a mirror to the present.”Ĭlark today works the family farm that his father started in Long Island, New York. “This exhibition is less a commentary on history than a reminder of its fragility,” said Clark and Ortiz in a statement in the exhibition catalog. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the show back to 2022, with the war in Ukraine displacing citizens by the millions. They originally began planning the show with the idea that it would run in 2020, on the 75 th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Clark and Ortiz’s continued work provided the source material for the new exhibition at the German Consulate. Ortiz, had begun going through those old photos when McCombe was alive, prodding the reticent photographer to talk about the history behind his pictures. #The aftermath fullHe left behind folders and envelopes full of negatives from his decades in photography. McCombe, who turned to farming after the original LIFE stopped publishing in 1972, died in 2015, at age 92. His many memorable stories for LIFE included a report from inside the Navajo nation and an essay on the vanishing American cowboy. McCombe, who was inspired to take up photography as a youth when he saw a copy of LIFE, would go on to become a staff photographer at the magazine. The photos in a new exhibition of McCombe’s work at the German Consulate General in New York tell the story of the deprivation and destruction of war. ![]() Now Europe is once again at war and citizens are facing the same dire circumstances due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. McCombe grew up in the Isle of Man and by the time he was 18, he was working as a war correspondent in Europe, shooting photos of the violence that was tearing up the continent during World War II. The pictures that legendary LIFE photographer Leonard McCombe made at the beginning of his career in the 1940s have a resonance that hits particularly hard in 2022. ![]()
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