Walter Koessler 1914 - 1918

This is the cover of Walter Koessler 1914-1918: The personal photo journal of a German officer in World War I. Trained as an architect and conscripted into the German Army directly from the classroom, Walter became an officer in the reserve artillery battalion and he took advantage of many unique opportunities to record his experience on film. He captured the haunting experience of building and living in the trenches, the sunlight pouring in through the broken windows of bombed churches, and the clouds through the wings of biplanes as an early aerial reconnaissance photographer.
If you want to see more on the project, check out:
http://walterkoessler.com/
I did book design and identity work for this project.