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Recollections: photographs of Philip Jones Griffiths was at the National Conservation Centre from 17 October 2008 to 13 April 2009. Please note that this exhibition has now closed.

Mowing the lawn, Northern Ireland, 1973

Photograph of a woman mowing her lawn, with a soldier holding a rifle crouched behind the garden wall in front of her

Philip Jones Griffiths/Magnum Photos.
Courtesy of the Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation

"The incongruities of daily life in the urban war zone. For years, the people of Northern Ireland lived in a strange and strained symbiosis with the occupying British army."