Olivier Cornet reckons he was about six years old when he first looked at his great-uncle's album of photographs from the first World War. Although fascinated, he remembers that he had no idea whatever of the immensities of human suffering they implied – implied rather than documented since as an army photographer he worked according to a strict code of practice.
French casualties were not to be depicted, for example, nor were the shocking realities of the brutal, grotesque injuries inflicted on the human body by powerful munitions.
Fast-forward to a couple of years back and Cornet, settled in Dublin, where he runs an art gallery, happened to meet another Frenchman resident in Ireland, Léo Régeard (who works under the name Leyho), a comic-book artist who has also worked in animation. In time they worked together in relation to an exhibition on James Joyce.
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