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War Sand

Donald Weber
Self-Published [Polygon]
ISBN 978-0-9959377
195 x 290 mm

Conversation between Donald Weber and Teun van der Heijden: T: ‘This photographer [Jan Rosseel] pulls a cutting from a place in a forest where this gang gathered, he photographs it in his studio and captions it “witness.”’ D: ‘The other day I read this article about two scientists who found out that the sand of the beaches in Normandy contain more iron than other beaches in the world, connected to the heavy fighting during D-day, I’m thinking of making a story with microscope photography.’

War Sand is about the retelling of D-day through the eyes of three different characters: a young boy, a scientist and a photographer. The young boy who is fascinated about a story his grandfather told him many times, the scientist who discovers both factual proof and fictional magic in a grain of sand and the photographer who becomes enchanted by clouds, the colors of the weather changing, by a lonely trashcan staring at a “guilty landscape” and who ends up fanatically watching every documentary, movie and television series ever made on D-day.