My first photo exhibitions about the Jewish heritage in Eastern Europe consisted of black and white images. To me black and white is connected to memory and commemoration – maybe because the photos of my childhood are in black and white, but also because most of the historical material preserved is in black and white. My interest in colour photography rose when I understood that heritage sites not only have a past, but also have a present. Synagogues are part of present urban space, a trace of a mezuzah is still visible, farmers let their animals graze in old cemeteries. But also absence is part of the present: cemeteries became markets, whole towns vanished. Having a good part of work already done, it’s a good moment to reflect some of the topics of the new exhibition, which will be shown by the end of January next year for the first time.

Botoșani Jewish cemetery, Romania

Botoșani Jewish cemetery, Romania

Botoșani synagogue, Romania

Bratslav synagogue, Ukraine

Brodno Jewish cemetery, Warsaw, Poland

Brodno Jewish cemetery, Warsaw, Poland

Busk mass grave, Ukraine

Câmpulung Moldovenesc synagogue, Romania

Mortuary at the Jewish cemetery, Chişinău, Moldova

Mural in the Groisse Shil, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Chernivtsi Jewish cemetery, Ukraine

Dubasari mass grave memorial, ‘Transnistria’, Moldova

Horodenka synagogue, Ukraine

Itcani New Jewish cemetery, Romania

Płaszów concentration camp site, Kraków, Poland

Lutsk synagogue, Ukraine

Golden Rose synagogue, Lviv, Ukraine

Tomb of the Baal Shem Tov in Medzhybizh, Ukraine

Meylakh Sheykhet in front of Golden Rose synagogue, Lviv, Ukraine

Mykhailivka concentration camp site, Ukraine

Rezina Jewish cemetery, Moldova

Sniatyn Jewish cemetery, Ukraine

Trochenbrod, Ukraine

Trochenbrod, Ukraine

Vadul Raşcov, Moldova

Former Jewish cemetery in Zhovkva, Ukraine

Zhovkva synagogue, Ukraine

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