WINNERS

Centre of Obsolescence

  • Photographer
    Marieke Berkelaar, Netherlands
  • Prize
    Gold Winner in Architecture/Interiors

This series was photographed in Terezín, a former concentration camp in the Czech Republic. Once a transit point during WWII, it now stands as a preserved space of memory and silence. I focused on the quiet detail. An empty bunk, the washroom, a worn table. Traces of life within a space shaped by loss. Working with natural light and a restrained visual language, I seek not to explain but to listen. The images carry no spectacle. They mourn what remains unseen: unspoken thoughts, interrupted lives. This is not a historical record, but a personal reflection. The memory and the dignity of absence