French army soldiers stopping near Akkerman (now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyï in Ukraine) towards the end of the Great War 1914-1918. A woman in a fur coat and her daughter join them.

In this collection of photographs taken by French soldiers on the eastern front during World War I – a hundred years ago – high resolution scans have revealed in stunning detail, not only the film’s grain structure, but also a rich patina of scratches, fingerprints and chemical alterations. On certain occasions, the intimate history of the negative itself and the successive layers of the passage of time confer to the work a unique level of abstract artistic beauty.