Before They Were Fallen

Before They Were Fallen deals with remembrance. Louis Quail uses photographic portraits and testimony to link memory, the passing of time and loss to create a body of work which pays tribute to fallen soldiers of Afghanistan.

The central concept of the work is a recreation of a family snap. The pair of pictures, the original, and the recreation - which shows a space where the soldier should be - together challenge the viewer to compare the past, before the soldier was fallen, to the present and the reality of their absence.