ELUSIVE MEMORY:
WHAT REMAINS
While photographing European locations related to my ancestry and Jewish heritage for Elusive Memory: Constructed Histories, I was particularly struck by spaces that had traumatic histories but little to no evidence of what took place or once existed at the sites. I soon realized there was a second project developing and photographed dozens of areas where there were once concentration camps, sub-camps, ghettos, and prisons, as well as synagogues and Jewish cemeteries that were destroyed during WWII. Most of these photographs initially seem like innocuous landscapes but upon closer inspection, and in conjunction with their titles, they reveal a very different reality. These images divulge the erasure of history and make up a parallel body of work, Elusive Memory: What Remains.