Messines

Rain storm over the Messines-Wijtschate Ridge.

Somme

The Newfoundland Memorial Park at Beaumont Hamel contains some of the best preserved and most easily viewed trenches of the Western Front.

Somme

Dawn over the river Somme at Curlu.

Messines

Rain storm over the Messines-Wijtschate Ridge.

Messines

Reconstructed German trenches at Bayernwald.

St Mihiel

The American Memorial at Montsec.

Verdun

A battered gun turret atop the Ouvrage de Froidterre.

 

Press Room

 

Throughout its four year programme the project was accorded world-wide media coverage - here are just a few of the links. 

 

Irish Times
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/no-man-s-landscapes-1.18450

 

BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-284610

 

Smithsonian
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/europe-landscape-still-scarred-world-war-i-180951430/?no-i

 

Featureshoot
http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/07/haunting-series-documents-painful-reminders-first-world-wa

 

Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2601293/2-Paris-exhibits-shed-light-First-World-War.ht

 

Suddeutsche Zeitung
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/ausstellungen-zum-ersten-weltkrieg-wo-der-weltenbrand-begreifbar-wird-1.1936476

 

Kansas City - National World War One Museum - Fox 4 News Interview

 

Fox 4 News Reporter Matt Stewart interviews Mike Sheil in Kansas City on Memorial Day.

 

 

Photographer displays WWI battlefields as they look today at Liberty Memorial.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Veterans and their families gathered under the Liberty Memorial this morning to honor those men and women who died in battle.

"The idea behind the photographs is they show lands which were once places of horror and killing, and today, you know, time and nature have healed the wounds of war and they're actually places of great beauty, and great peace and tranquility," said photographer and Keynote speaker Mike Sheil.

As the keynote speaker, he talked about the impact America had on the war. Sheil, a native of England, expressed his honor in being chosen to speak at the ceremony.

Read the full article: HERE


 

 

Kansas City - National World War One Museum and Memorial

 

Doran Cart - Senior Curator of the Museum, shares his thoughts on the exhibition and his passion for the subject in the video below.

 

 

"Over all the years that the National World War One Museum has been doing special exhibitions, the one that I'm going to talk about now is probably one of the most special"

 



 

Belfast City Hall

Forming part of Belfast City Council’s wider ‘Decade Of Centenaries: Reflections On 1916’ programme, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace will be outside Belfast City Hall until
August 28th.

Click to the right to view a short video.
(There is a delay of around 12 seconds before the video starts).





 

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