Yishay Garbasz – In my mother’s footsteps

Yishay traces her mothers  journey through the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.  She uses text from her mothers recollections with her own photographs to produce a seemingly cold and objective representation of Place.  By using a large format camera her approach was slowed down and  “Thus the picture came to the camera rather than me forcing a picture on the landscape. The pictures are feedback, and not a result of this process of seeing.”

 

Marinebad 2005 © Yishay Garbasz

Her approach can at times seem cold and the captioning of the images almost over-simplified. Take for example “This is the road my mother walked during the death march.” This emotional detachment is, however effective with the subject matter being as sensitive as it is. Furthermore, these are the memories are not that of Yishay’s, but her mothers and so it would be impossible to even attempt to recreate the feeling which she would of experianced at the time.