THE LANDSCAPE OF
BELGIUM and FRANCE

This site presents a photographic study of the landscape of Belgium and Northern France which I began in 1995. The project covers a strip of landscape from Dixmuide in Belgium in the North, running South through Arras and the Somme to Verdun in France.

There are additional scattered, but related, areas. All of these locations were areas of significant fighting in the First World War, and were in most cases left totally devastated at the end of the War.

The photographs show the contemporary landscape and the pattern of redevelopment and regrowth since 1918.There are several series of images accessed via the main project map.

To Navigate through site, and to read notes, Click on images or use Links table at bottom of most pages.