Andrew Hazewinkel

Two successive negatives reveal the facial detail of Warrior B, one of two heroically scaled, naked male bronze figures created during the period of stylistic transition from archaic to early classical. Typically displayed upright in custom designed rooms at Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria Italy, the two warriors were photographed by Hazewinkel during a period of recent analysis and conservation during which they lay side by side in provisional support structures, resembling hospital gurneys. For Hazewinkel the figure’s horizontality and the triage like qualities of the temporary research laboratory in which the research was being conducted  imbued these famously heroic figures with a sense of profound vulnerability.

Photographic permission courtesy Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali Soperintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Calabria.