The task was undertaken with “a bit of old fashioned detective work,” according to Getty Images News photographer, Matt Cardy (via BBC)
How Those Battle of the Somme Now & Then…
Getty Images photographer Matt Cardy uncovered a collection of pictures from the Getty archive taken at the time of the battle in North-East France in July 1916. He then returned to the same places, took new photos from the same viewpoint and digitally merged them.
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