honorable mention
Joanna Borowiec poland
title
I WAS BORN IN A CAMP
Of the 143 children captured in the camp, three survived, including Jan.
"We were sitting under the floor, there were holes dug, you could not hear even a child cring. When a German came and saw someone holding a child, he would grabbed the baby’s leg or his hand, threw it away and the dog bit it. This is how it was in this camp. When a German entered the barracks, dogs ran, such large dogs that the child was torn in the air before it managed to hide. Do you understand? Can you imagine it? This was the reality.”
interview with Jan Chmiel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3hj1zmR7Vk
Enthusiast of medium- and large-format analogue photography. Uses historic photographic processes like ambrotype – wet collodion technique, cyanotype e.c.t. The main topic of her photos is humanistic photography, human.
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entry description
The story of Jan Chmiel, who was born in the Waltrop forced labor camp – a city in western Germany.Of the 143 children captured in the camp, three survived, including Jan.
"We were sitting under the floor, there were holes dug, you could not hear even a child cring. When a German came and saw someone holding a child, he would grabbed the baby’s leg or his hand, threw it away and the dog bit it. This is how it was in this camp. When a German entered the barracks, dogs ran, such large dogs that the child was torn in the air before it managed to hide. Do you understand? Can you imagine it? This was the reality.”
interview with Jan Chmiel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3hj1zmR7Vk
about the photographer
When you talk, sometimes you have to scream to be heard, but when you’re presenting an exciting image, everyone gets silent. A photograph enables me to depict a pure world abounding with tender gestures and even more tender glances, which never perish in the rushing clock of time. It also allows me to immortalize those that are closest to me. Unless it’s destroyed, a photograph can act as a record of no longer existing places and people. Every time we look at it, we breathe life into them. it is beautiful but also difficult, it is difficult to come to terms with the passing of time.Enthusiast of medium- and large-format analogue photography. Uses historic photographic processes like ambrotype – wet collodion technique, cyanotype e.c.t. The main topic of her photos is humanistic photography, human.
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