Close to Home

Pond

Pond

Apples

Apples

List

List

Pegs

Pegs

Flowers Above Julian

Waiting

Waiting

Train with Group

Close to Home is a revised series, from an original project in Lithuania and Poland with the Imperial War Museum Holocaust Fellowship Programme. The images from the trip have been used in Holocaust learning resources, with the Institute of Education and Imperial War Museums. This series explores the Holocaust whilst focussing on everyday lives, places that remain and empty spaces where things used to be. The work focusses on details and searches for meaning.

How it was possible – not long ago, and not far away – that so many people became complicit in the murder of their neighbours, and that the outside world did so little to prevent it. Paul Salmons


Child’s Shoe: Stitches

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Child’s Shoe: Stitches

Child’s Shoe found at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ordinary Things? Discovering the Holocaust through Historical Artefacts: teaching resources, with Imperial War Museums, the United Nations Footprints for Hope and the Institute of Education, London

Appears in Imperial War Museums║Objects II


Protest Signs

Anti war march against the Iraq war, London

Brian Haw in a peace camp in Parliament Square where he lived for nearly ten years

Brian Haw in a peace camp in Parliament Square where he lived for nearly ten years

Anti war march against the Iraq war, London

Anti war march against the Iraq war, London

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