Welcome to Marwencol by Mark E. Hogancamp

Author:Mark E. Hogancamp [Mark Hogancamp and Chris Shellen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2016-02-29T16:00:00+00:00

Hogie positioning figurines in a 2013 diorama by Mark.

“A photographer takes a photo of Anna and me at Marwencol Falls, where we spent our honeymoon.”

Hogie draws Anna’s portrait for her in his diary.

American GIs look at a map on the hood of their jeep during the bitter Belgian winter of 1944.

Part II

INSIDE MARWENCOL

Mark at work in Marwencol. (photo by Jeff Malmberg)

CHAPTER SIX

Process

“When I set up or shoot a scene, it’s as if the characters tell me what to do. It’s like they don’t even hear me...they just do what they want. // Each figure has a personality—even the characters that aren’t based on any one person in the real world, like Deja Thoris. So, with my camera, I’m trying to take something plastic and make it look real, because in my head it’s real. I see it as real, but nobody else around me does. // When it gets cold, I put coats on my figures, because that’s what I would do in real life. And I know how an American World War II soldier’s coat feels and moves because I have one. Does it keep me warm in the winter? No, not really...so I understand why some people froze in the Ardennes forest. // Even the ambient noises make it more real. I come out here and I hear the train whistling and the gunfire from the gun range that’s a mile away and it all adds to the story in my head. It’s like I’m trying to capture the whole story in one photograph, because it’s not a moving picture—they’re more like stills from a movie. I’m trying to capture that mood...that moment when you can almost smell the grass or the rain and feel the rocks or the mud or the snow.”

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