This body of work attempts to reframe our way of seeing by presenting this former concentration camp through an objective lens. By not using the traditional approach of showing fences, guard towers, or using black and white photography, these pictures insert the viewer into the landscape without raising the automatic defense shield that we have when confronted with Holocaust images.

Conceptually, some of the landscape images are taken from the inside out.. The camera sees from the camp point of view to the landscape, revealing to the viewer the inmates' perspective. What we see is what they could see.

The objectivity of depicting these images is a crucial part of the work. Photographing in color with a large format camera and without a forced ideology enables the place to act as a blank sheet of paper for the viewer's own thoughts and feelings.

The decision making process of taking these pictures is based fundamentally on aesthetic merit. The viewer's awareness of the history of the place arrives as a second layer of knowledge. Accepting the notion of the beauty depicted in these images along with awareness of the site's history brings the viewer to reexamine their stance. Even in this place...

Oren Eckhaus