Find Fix Finish

2015 – 2018

Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet

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Find Fix Finish is a visual research on the iconography used by the U.S. Army in its war against terrorism. This project is based on confidential documents published by the online journal The Intercept in 2015. Those reports analyse drone strikes in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.

The army uses these documents to describe its reality of the conflict. A reality made of statistics, graphic charts and illustrations, brightly coloured with a digital aesthetic. The explosions depicted seem harmless. Civilian victims are only mentioned as “EKIA” – Enemy Killed in Action. In this so-called “ art ” of war, the only worry is about economy and efficiency.

The work’s title, Find Fix Finish, comes from the last procedural step of a typical drone strike, where the target is located, tracked, and eliminated.

I used cropping as a methodology in order to divert this set of illustrations away from their original goals. These details reveal the dehumanization of these offensive operations conducted from a distance. They are the cold and bureaucratic face of the conflict, PowerPoints produced away from the battle line, where death is still present.

    Exhibitions

  1. 2020
    1. 23. vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis für Fotografie,

      Kammgarn West, Schaffhausen, CH

  2. 2019
    1. 23. vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis für Fotografie,

      ELAC, Renens, CH

    2. 23. vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis für Fotografie,

      Photobastei, Zurich, CH

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Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - © Clément Lambelet

Find Fix Finish and Two Donkeys in a War Zone,

in 23. vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis für Fotografie, ELAC, Renens, CH, 2019

 - © Clément Lambelet
 - © Clément Lambelet

Find Fix Finish and Two Donkeys in a War Zone,

in 23. vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis für Fotografie, Kammgarn West, Schaffhausen, CH, 2019

Edition

Find Fix Finish

Self-published artist book

December 2015R

eprinted in August 2018

 

Metal ring binding

24 x 33.5 cm

114 pages

95 colour photographs

74 black and white documents

© Clément Lambelet

Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet
Find Fix Finish - edition - © Clément Lambelet