lunched yesterday with Blake Heathcote, founder of the Testaments of Honour project. The project is recording, on digital video, the personal histories of Canadian veterans and has just published A Soldier’s View: the Personal Photographs of Canadians at War, 1939-1945.A Soldier's View is a powerful collection of war photographs from the albums of veterans from all theatres of war; men and women in the navy, in the air force, in the army. With only brief introductions to each chapter, Heathcote has let the photos speak for themselves.
in his forward, artist Alex Colville wonders why we are still interested in events that happened 60 years ago. Heathcote and I pondered that question and discussed not only the grief of war, but the sadness of chronicling (and developing relationships with) aging veterans.to read more about the Testaments of Honour project while breathlessly awaiting my author interview, go here.
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