‘The moment people get near a camera, they start playing a role. Everyone does it, myself included.’ Alex Majoli (1971) is fascinated by the theatricality of real life. Rather than deconstructing it, though, he wants to enlarge it. He joins in the game, producing images that are deliberately filmic and theatrical. He spent time for this series with a group of local re-enactors in northern Italy, who restage historic battles. The pictures were shot in daylight, using a combination of underexposure and flash.

This story is part of a group Magnum project, The First World War Now.