HISTORY
My personal attempts to contextualise and understand the holocaust by way of site visits, research and correspondence.
My personal attempts to contextualise and understand the holocaust by way of site visits, research and correspondence.
In the tiny village of Chełmno, the whisper of testimony is deafening. Locating emotions and confronting vicious truths: It was always this quiet.
The pristine memorial at Bełżec belies it's terrifying history. Testimony alone can bring a sense of this place into our hearts and minds: Night was already falling.
Warsaw is known as the city that survived it's own death. But what exactly was the uprising of 1944 and why does it leave such an impenetrable, intangible feeling that still defines this place so many years on?
A single image captures a moment in time. Powerful, yet arbitrary. In reality there is movement, subtle and sublime. The holocaust sites of Poland & Lithuania, captured in time-lapse are, indeed, still moving.
The objects displayed in pristine glass cabinets at the holocaust memorials of Poland are accompanied by terse descriptions. But what stories do they really tell? What is left after their owners have left this earth? Artefact.
Stung by the Baltic winds, few places articulate their place in history as much as the shipyards of Gdansk. Immaculate dilapidation, faded splendour and a rugged, irresistible charm. Captured on a phone clasped between frozen fingers.