It's not about fake or not fake at this point, because the artwork itself doesn't claim to be a real photo. The picture in which a girl with balloons in the colors of Ukraine stands in front of a tank is of course an artwork. So it's an art image that was created on a computer. The author is also named in the photo, he is Fabien Barrau. The photo was also published on Barrau's Instagram account, where we read:
𝙲𝙷𝙸𝙻𝙳𝚁𝙴𝙽 𝙾𝙵 𝚆𝙰𝚁𝚂 - 𝟷𝟸: 𝟷𝟸, 𝟶𝟶𝟶 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚓𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚛 - 𝚈𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗: 𝟷𝟶 𝟷𝟶, 𝟶𝟶𝟶 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚗 - 𝚄𝚔𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎: 𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟶𝟶. 𝚂𝚝𝚞𝚙𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚗𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚝 . 𝙻𝚎𝚝'𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚜 𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛! . 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝙲𝙶 𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚒 𝚝𝚑 #𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 #𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚙
Barrau ( website here ) is a French artist and graphic designer from Paris. He specializes in photo post-processing and handles all types of creative work, retouching and photo compositing. Since September 2016 he has been the head of the Mikros Photo studio, which is part of Mikros Image. And now he has had an extremely viral reach with the following picture:
Narratives of War: Tanks and Girls
This picture is very exciting because it tells a story. It affects people because of its narrative, which has been dominant on the Ukrainian side since the beginning of the Ukrainian war. But in this picture the symbols come to the fore even more. To put it another way: This image doesn't need any text! There is simply no need for text because the symbols tell the story.
This picture tells the David versus Goliath story broken down to one extreme. We have the classic image of the innocent child and the tank as a symbol of crime per se. Let's take a close look at the two actors involved. In the foreground we see the child, a girl, as pure and innocent. Children appear again and again in narratives and are deliberately portrayed as innocence. She needs to be protected. The balloon as a symbol of freedom is also added here. In the picture we have balloons in the colors of Ukraine.
Opposite is a battle tank. The shell looks like a wild animal, its chains look like the claws of a predator just waiting to pounce on its victim. Behind the predator we see devastation. Yes, the entire situation is David versus Goliath. The child only has the balloons, freedom as a weapon. Goliath, on the other hand, only has destruction with him.
We have to make it clear at this point that Russia is of course a dominant force in the war and Ukraine was invaded. These images are intended to symbolize the situation and show on a meta level that Ukraine is resisting superior power. However, it is very interesting in this picture to see how exactly the symbols work and what stories the symbols tell. Artistically a great work, it contains the symbols and narratives that have been spread by Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
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