Shot at Dawn (2015)

Abstract

Chloe Dewe Mathews’ first monograph “Shot at Dawn” (2014) documents the sites at which British, French and Belgian troops were executed for cowardice and desertion between 1914 and 1918. The project comprises images of twenty-three locations at which individuals were shot or held in the period leading up to their executions. All photographs were taken as close to the exact time of execution as possible and at approximately the same time of year. “Shot at Dawn” was commissioned by the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford as part of 14–18 NOW, WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, and was published by Ivorypress in 2014.

Chloe Dewe Mathews is a photographic artist based in St. Leonards-on-Sea, England. Best known for her long-term documentary projects, Mathews has exhibited and published her photographs internationally. Her work has been acquired by several public and private collections including the British Council Art Collection, the National Galleries of Scotland and the Irish State Art Collection. She was granted the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, and has won and been nominated for several awards. Mathews has undertaken commissions from institutions such as the Contemporary Art Society at Oxford University and Photoworks.