There is something inherently fascinating about graveyards and memorials for me. I think it is part of the historian in me – I can’t help but be interested in the way that people remember and record the past, and for me part of that process involves photography. I enjoy the process of thinking about what I’m photographing and why, and what the photo will say about the site and the history, and about my response to it. The big, old graveyards of major European cities are my favourites – Highgate in London, the Zentral Friedhof in Vienna, Pere Lachaise in Paris – but I’m also interested in the memorialising of history’s other, unnatural, deaths. I’ve been to Rwanda, and to Auschwitz, and I am both fascinated by these sites, and by the responses of the people who visit them.
For more thoughts on my trip to Auschwitz, please read ‘Documentary Imperative’
