These Moving Photos Show The Lives Of Holocaust Survivors Today
To commemorate Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) in Bristol is opening Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, a partnership challenge that includes 50 pictures of various survivors all around the world.
“The exhibition was meant to open in 2020 with 75 portraits to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,” mentioned Tracy Marshall-Grant, RPS Challenge Curator, over electronic mail. When the UK was positioned underneath its first nationwide lockdown like so many different nations in March 2020, the exhibition was up to date and postponed till this yr.
Opening Thursday, the present options photos taken by 13 completely different photographers, together with photos taken by Kate Middleton aka Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. The RPS labored with companions together with Holocaust Memorial Day Belief to pair survivors and their households with the photographers. Every photographer was inspired to deal with the challenge as if it have been their very own, leading to images of various types.
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