Photographer Simon Menner was tasked with tracking down and capturing a military sniper in action. He plans his shots to allow the snipers to work as stealthily and discretely as possible.
However, those who work in this field know how difficult it is to go for long periods of time without being discovered.
However, spectators and snipers are both up against the challenge. Viewers must locate the sniper hidden in one of Simon’s photographs, which appears to be just another ordinary landscape at first glance.
In the real world, where a split-second decision could mean the difference between life and death, they would not have the luxury of paying attention to every last detail of the image.
Simon’s lofty goal was to film the shooters of the German Wehrmacht between 2010 and 2013. He made the trip to Lithuania and Latvia in 2022 after planning for ten years to get the photos that would become popular online.
The soldiers had received extensive training specifically for this photo shoot, so even the most knowledgeable viewers might find it challenging to identify them. Everything was taken into account, from blending in with their surroundings to dodging Simon’s camera.
It was a source of pride that they had worked so hard to maintain their anonymity throughout a staged shot. The pictures thus revealed the marksmen’s extraordinary skill, accuracy, and ingenuity.
Simon is looking for images of snipers who have skillfully blended in with their surroundings using camouflage. The fact that they are concealed from view makes his objective more difficult, making it a unique and challenging experiment. He has been made aware of on a global scale after asking the US military to contact him.
Viewers in one image are perplexed as they look for the sniper. Initially, it seems as though there is a person hiding inside the doorway leading to the second level of the building in the image.
Due to their camouflage and advantageous location, the skilled sniper has escaped detection; even if they had been discovered, they would not have had enough time to react before it was too late.
