What Remains of

 A hard exhibition paid my attention: 'What remains of Autschwitz'. The author (Juan Pedro Revuelta) after whatching to the documentary film "Shoah" by Claude Lanzmann, had the necessity to travel to Autschwitz to take the atmophere left on that horror place. Stacked boots, half-burnt clothes, broken glasses, ....

The artist has used the technical: platinumtype. "This ancient photographic procedure obtains monochrome prints by contact on materials sensitized with platinum and iron salts. As Revuelta explains, his decision to work with this technique was motivated by two factors: «The appearance –it resembles human ash and also offers a perfectly matte surface, very ethereal and spiritual– and the durability –it is one of the photographic processes most stable that exist, as well as the memory of the place, which never disappears»" (text from La Razón).

On the image, left, Wilhelm Brasse, who was a prisoner at Autschwitz and a retratist who took more that 50000 pictures from that site.

On that image, all is in B/W but I have left the fire extinguisher in red as symbol to be used to put out any budding flame that starts another fire of hate and anger (not war).