Landscapes of Trauma

Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Czech Republic/ 2003

Lake once filled with ashes of the cremated, KZ2 - Auschwitz/ c.1997

End of the Line, KZ1 - Auschwitz, Poland/ 1997

KZ2 – Women’s section, Auschwitz/ 1997

Hotel Globe, Auschwitz, Poland/ 1997

KZ2- Auschwitz , Poland/ 1997

Administration Block, KZ1 - Auschwitz/ 1997

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Berlin, Germany/ c.1998

Ludmilla Woloschima Makarowa of Russia at the 55th Anniversary Celebrations in Ravensbruck, Germany/ 2000

Torture Cell, Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, Germany/ 2000

Self-portrait, KZ1 - Auschwitz/ c.1997

Waiting Area at Birkenau KZ2, Auschwitz/ 1997

Gedenkstatte Haus der Wannsee Konferenz, Berlin/ c.2004

Zinnowitz, Germany I/ c.2004

Zinnowitz, Germany II/ c.2004

Landscapes of trauma

Where did the road lead when it lead nowhere
THERE WAS EARTH INSIDE THEM (Paul Celan)

One question currently being addressed is, whether or not there should be a national Holocaust Memorial, or whether the camps themselves should serve as their own memorials. Would a monument invite remembrance or through a kind of containment, forgetting?