Contrasting D-Day Editorials offers us the surreal mixture of past and present as a series of pictures taken on D-Day that have been combined with contemporary images. The series was originally done by the Getty photographer Peter Macdiarmid.
Contrasting D-Day Editorials attempts to show the scale of destruction unleashed in Normandy on and after D-Day through these contrasting visuals.
Contrasting D-Day Editorials commemorates the 70th anniversary of Operation Overload and shows the present locations in blended into the events of Operation Overload.
The very first of the Contrasting D-Day Editorials show a shot of the cliffs on May 6, 2014 in Pointe du Hoc, France. The overlay features the scenery of after the assault at the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc by the 2nd Ranger Battalion (D, E and F Company) Colonel James E. Rudder establishes a Post Commando on June 1944.
Similarly another Contrasting D-Day Editorials features an overlay of an older couple watching a Canadian soldier with a bulldozer working in the ruins of a house in the rue de Bayeux on July 10, 1944 at rue de Bayeux on May 5, 2014 in Caen, France.
Contrasting D-Day Editorials series shows similar contrasting images throughout the entire landscape of France.
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