Image credit: Nebojsa Seric Shoba
"Battle of Waterloo. Belgium. 1815"
Lens, The New York Times
Over the past two weeks, Lens, the photography and photojournalism blog component of the New York Times, has featured two different photographic collections concerned with memory, trauma, and war. Nebojsa Seric Shoba's "Battlefields" is comprised of images of former battle sites. Shoba returned to photograph the places where the Battle of Brooklyn (1776) or the Battle of Waterloo (1815) were fought. Rather than return to earlier places, Maciek Nabrdalik took portraits of Holocaust survivors, focusing closely on the faces of his subjects as they are lit against a stark black background. Both sets of images press the viewer to consider the possibilities and failures inherent in any attempt to make memory visible.
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