Auschwitz Birkenau

The images that were taken during this shoot were unplanned. It also looked at the way I was experiencing the camps for the first time, and it was interesting to see where my head went during time and how the information that I was being told also affected the way that I shot, and this can be clearly seen in the development from start to finish. The first part of the tour was definitely the most intense part, but this was down to the structure of the information that was being told to us at the time. The horrific things that were done to innocent people were on a level of atrocity that is impossible to explain. During the tour, there were images captured during the war that were used by the Nazis to document how and what they were doing. The images that were shown are also in the book “Auschwitz: A History in Photographs.” When first released in 1990, the title translates to “Auschwitz Crime Against Humanity.”.

Chapter titles

Auschwitz: The Nazi murder camp

Auschwitz in documentary photographs

The art inspired by Auschwitz

The Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum

Personal reflections on Auschwitz today

Images from my experience on November 4, 2023. Age 21. The realisation of what had actually happened here is not fit to be put into words, but the symbolism that it brings and the announced history show the fortitude and determination of the people who were forced to live in the camp.

23/1/24

I have revisited some of the images that I had taken during the trip to poland and I have decided to re-edit them and post them. I used lightroom classic for some small lighting changes to most of the selected image and have chosen to keep them mostly the same as before in contrast. However some of the image that I have chosen to go back over are apart of the set that I have firsed decided werent good enough.