D-Day Landing beaches, 2024
On 6 June 1944, American, Canadian and British Allied troops stormed the German armies in France on five Normandy beaches : Utah Beach, Gold Beach, Juno Beach, Sword Beach and Omaha Beach, nicknamed “Bloody Omaha”.
156,000 men landed on French soil to open up a Western Front and break through enemy lines until the fall of the Nazi regime.
On the eve of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, Pierre-Olivier Deschamps travelled to Normandy to photograph the sites of what marked the turning point of the Second World War, the moment when hope of victory was revived after the defeats in the north of France.
On these beaches of memorial tourism, time seems to have healed the wounds of a painful past without, however, erasing them completely. The photographer is interested in this landscape as a natural monument to the D-Day, where the calm of the sea meets the eternal detonations of battle.
Produced on assignment for Le Figaro Magazine.
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