On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Today is also the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Below the poem Todesfuge (Death Fugue) by Paul Celan. A photographer and good friend of mine, Koen, told me about this poem while we were discussing Heavens… I had never heard of it… and I thought it fitting for this day today. — Paul Celan – Todesfuge Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken sie abends wir trinken sie... Read the Rest →
Meet my late grandfather, Antoine Libens. Alfons Libens & Jeanne Degros were his parents. But everyone called him Gaston. Gaston is the reason that I ‘m starting my next long term project: Heavens. Heavens will become a personal journey, me trying to make sense of something unimaginable. Something unspeakable. Something that took place in Europe 60 years ago, before I was born. I feel the need to personally understand and place the huge and unimaginable injustice done to so many millions during the years of the Holocaust. A darkest page... Read the Rest →
