Monuments of Destruction
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The events of the Holocaust and the following Soviet regimes left their marks on the people and the landscape of Central and Eastern Europe. As the child of Holocaust survivors, I began traveling in Eastern Europe to learn about my family history and more generally about the impact that the last seventy years of history has had on this region. I took these photographs of real and metaphorical monuments of this destruction, between 2002-2005 during several trips to the Czech Republic, Poland and The Ukraine.
This series of monuments in the actual and imagined sense, were created by using clusters of two to four 21/4”negatives, and 4x5 pinhole images, printed in Platinum/Palladium. Because this method of printing requires special attention and more time, as well as the use of precious metals and hand coating the paper, each print is one of a kind, delicate and poetic. |
