For this series photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews documented the exact locations in Flanders and northern France where First World War soldiers accused of cowardice or desertion were executed. The portfolio consists of twenty-four prints and a book. Each photograph represents a specific site and memorialises those soldiers who were put to death for apparent military crimes. Today we recognise that many men were suffering from psychiatric illness brought on by the horrors of warfare. 

Shot at Dawn was originally commissioned by the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford as part of 14-18 NOW, WWI Centenary Art Commissions.