Six prints on the first day of bombing on the outbreak of Gulf War II 2006 and the 2009 Disintegration.

On March 20th 2003 there was a BBC news flash that Britain and America was at war with Iran. When the first bombs were being dropped Holden took the nearest camera to him and started taking pictures of the television screen, this resulted in 25 polaroids of the beginning of this war. He scanned each polaroid to create these pictures and within them you see Soldiers rescuing Jack Russell puppies, bits of video footage from guided missiles, oil fields, Saddam Hussain, Blair talking about WMD, Bush saluting dead American soldiers, Moira Stewart broadcasting and an Iraqi woman that had just lost her family and home in an attack. Using a polaroid to create stills from the footage interested Holden as one was Live and the other was Instant. Holden will often take

a photograph or make a drawing and then disregard it for future use, he published this series three years after the taking of the polaroids being intrigued by how much the reasoning, circumstances and situations of the out break of war had dramatically changed.

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