Creative&Live

Alexander Guikinger is a french freelance photographer. He recently created a serie untitled “Save the Ligne Maginot” in collaboration with Mathias Kiss and Anne Chanioleau. He proposed to Wallpaper* to realise a serie of design set up in one of the bunker of the line.

I spent my childhood playing in the forest among the bunkers and a few years ago I discovered people were restoring them of their own accord,’ says Guirkinger. ’Some people were transforming them into museums, some were staging re-enactments and some were using them as sites for paintball games or gun clubs. Some have even turned them into private houses. I was fascinated by the idea of the fantasy of the military and the concept of playing war.

Alexander Guirkinger is represented by Rose.