article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Every day, images of war and conflict are splashed across our desktops, plastered on our TV screens and scattered through our mobile news feeds.
article_snippet.sent: Because of that, one's response to such imagery often becomes calloused or desensitized.
article_snippet.sent: Simon Brann Thorpe's uses the area's harsh landscape as a powerful backdrop for soldiers posed as green plastic figurines -- similar to the popular toys that many children play with.
article_snippet.sent: Toy Soldiers are with the Polisario Front, an independence movement that has been clashing with Morocco over the region since the mid-1970s.
article_snippet.sent: Simon Brann Thorpe's said Simon Brann Thorpe's project enables "the creation of a visual metaphor from which a viewer develops Toy Soldiers own emotional, physical and political response to war and conflict, when faced with the realization that the images do not contain toy soldiers but real soldiers.
article_snippet.sent: Simon Brann Thorpe's "Toy Soldiers" book is available for pre-order through Dewi Lewis Publishing.
highlights_snippet.sent: Simon Brann Thorpe's project makes real-life soldiers resemble toy soldiers .
  