Here Are The Young Men Project By Claire Felicie

The series “Here are the young men”, The Netherlands – Afghanistan, 2009-2010, show photos of Dutch marines deployed to Afghanistan. These marines are young boys, full of excitement and expectations who are being sent to a war zone. There they are confronted with pain, sadness and death. Will something appear on their faces of these experiences? To find an answer to this question Claire Felicie photographed the marines of the 13th infantry company of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, before, during and after their deployment in Uruzgan.
Claire Felicie was born in the south of the Netherlands, in the city of Breda, in 1966. She took first pictures with her brother’s camera at the age of 18. When she developed the film and saw the results, she immidiatly bought a camera of her own. In 1988, after the birth of her eldest son (who is now a marine in the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps) she moved to Amsterdam with her husband. There she studied history at the University of Amsterdam and gave birth to four more children in the coming years.