At the end of the 1980s, when Michael Kenna first entered the Struthof concentration camp, the latter was almost forgotten. In reportage near Strasbourg, the American photographer was also surprised that such a place exists in France. His discovery changed his life. For about fifteen years thereafter, he never stopped going to the camps, with one goal:
"to document". “I explored as much as I could. I went to as many camps as possible with my time and financial constraints; it all came into play. Whenever I had a job in Europe I would always try to add a day or two and go to either Germany or Belgium or Poland and, all those places. , I was going to take pictures ”
, he says in the catalog of the exhibition held at the National Museum of the Resistance in Champigny-sur-Marne (94).
A museum to which the photographer has just donated all of his memorial work.
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