Throughout the three months I have been living in Krakow I have taken several films of Krakow itself and the surrounding areas for a photography project.
I think the top image of the grouping of images works well as a piece detailing Liban quarry, Plaszow concentration camp and Krakus mound in Podgorze. The area is a former Nazi Labour camp and the site of a concentration camp for which 19,000 people died. The quarry was also used in the film Schindler's list and the gravestones are remnants of the set for the film. As you walk around the area there's an eery ambiguous sense, and not you're not quite sure as to what is real or part of the film set. The prints appear ghostly which in a way adds to the vague indefiniteness of the subject. However without use of a darkroom it's been difficult to negotiate issues of contrast within the prints, as if I could work with the negatives myself I could have experimented with the tonal contrast to bring out certain features in the photographs.
The album also highlights photographs taken at Auschwitz - Birkenau, in Krakow itself on the day of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski's funeral and Wieliczka Salt mine.
