PARIS, FRANCE.- John Foley and The Association LCDLM " Les Champs de la Mémoire " will be displaying black and white photographics representing the ruins and remains left by the Great War in the landscapes of the West front, running from the North Sea to Alsace (Flanders, Artois, La Somme, le Chemin des Dames, Champagne, Verdun).

The cataclysm of the Great War was the tragic event which dramatically gave birth to the XXth century and the modern era. About ten million people coming from different countries died in that war that unbalanced the world and the mentalities.

This exhibition is the opportunity to remind us the huge collective sacrifice. The images enlighten History that comes to us throughout the scars on the ground and in the inner earth. Those unusual forms and remains in the landscapes are part of the common European Legacy and Memory of all the people and beyond that of the new generation.

The ruins, landscapes represented in John Foley's photographics are the rests of fortresses, memorials and cemeteries, but also remains, tracks, left in the earth, drawing of trenches underground, craters in fields, partially modeled by nature and the course of time. These scars are legible still and strongly suggestive of what all the soldiers and people there were able to live and to suffer.

The phototographics (40x50cm and 30x40cm) will be displayed accompanied by the texts written by Anne Roze, a useful information that allows a specific look at the images giving a whole sense and meaning to the landscapes presented during this exhibition.

John Foley is the founder and manager of the photo-agency "Opale" located in Paris and specializing in writers' portraits, he has also participated in the publication of the book "The Places of the Great War " (1996. Ed de la RMN), He is the photographer co-author with Anne Roze of the book "Les champs de la mémoire" (1998. Ed du Chêne), with Alain-Gilles Minella " Sur les pas de Jeanne d'Arc" (1999. Ed. Tallandier).

John Foley's photographics were displayed in 1998 "Les champs de la Mémoire", "Les paysages du chemin des Dames" in 2001. In 2002 an exhibition called "Je n'en reviens pas" was held in Marrocco (Marrakesh ) and in 2003 in France (Bordeaux).