One Last Sitting for Holocaust Survivors – Lens

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One Last Sitting for Holocaust Survivors

His subjects’ back stories were complicated enough, so Maciek Nabrdalik minimized the setting to focus on their faces, Eirini Vourloumis reports.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/showcase-146/

Maciek Nabrdalik set out to photograph Holocaust survivors with a case full of studio equipment. At times, his subjects waited for him dressed in their best attire. He quickly realized that such formality would detract from his goal: to capture memories of the Holocaust through his subjects’ facial expressions.