I Wanted to See the Places
How do we tell the story of the Holocaust when everyone who can testify is dead? What do the landscapes look like today where the camps were located? Do the sites bear witness to the atrocities that took place there? These questions were the starting point for Anders Löwdin’s photographic project on the Holocaust. In 2014, Anders Löwdin started to travel with his camera to the sites of the Holocaust, mainly in Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Austria. “I wanted to see the places” collects fifty of Anders Löwdin’s photographs and opens with an essay by Ola Larsmo. The book was published on Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27, 2022. Löwdin’s images focus on the enormity of what it means to forget what happened here; the place itself should be imbued with the horror that took place here. It should be palpable. But none of this is visible. It exists, for now, only in your gaze.
From Ola Larsmo’s foreword
Title: I wanted to see the places
Author: Anders Löwdin
Preface: Ola Larsmo
Translator to English: Margaret Rainey
Published: 2022-01
ISBN: 9789189015999
Publisher: Kaunitz-Olsson
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Film: Elsa Löwdin
© Anders Löwdin Title: Chełmno III
Anders Löwdin has created a series of images that remind us of the passage of time and of memories that change and fade. And of our duty to keep the memory of what happened alive.
Torun Börtz, Ystads Allehanda, January 27, 2022
© Anders Löwdin Title: Treblinka 1 II
His camera stops at the border between one perspective and the other, showing us the absence. It is unbearable. And what these images do is present you, the viewer and reader, with the demand to remember – to tell the story that should not exist. They push you to the brink. The task of answering the question of how to remember is now yours.
Ola Larsmo, DN, January 27, 2022
© Anders Löwdin Title: Babij Jar 1
Anders Löwdin has created a series of images that remind us of the passage of time and of memories that change and fade. And of our duty to keep the memory of what happened alive. Torun Börtz, Ystads Allehanda, January 27, 2022
