Auschwitz is one of those trips I’ve being saying I’ll get round to one day and last month I finally got there. I arrived with an open view on what I wanted to shoot, or should I say what I was allowed to shoot. There are some parts of Auschwitz you simply cannot take images of and we all have to respect that. My vision was simple, 5 documented frames that for me summed up what Auschwitz was all about.

Black and white film for me was the right choice. Kodak’s Double X was perfect for the brief as its a high contrast stock and has a classic period documentary aspect to it, grainy.

Image 1: One of the remaining train wagons from that period that were used to transport the jews to Auschwitz.

Image 2: Clearly there was no escape as electric fences and watch towers surrounded the camp

Image 3: The most basic and impersonal spaces resembling cattle sheds. I leave to judge what they were used for

Image 4: Photographed, documented, the lucky ones were put to work but mainly all of them were put to death

Image 5: The twin fenced walk way that lead you to Dr Josef Mengele’s experimental buildings. Your fate unsure other than the final outcome

My article is not meant in any way to shock you, but more so to remind us all of that terrible Holocaust during WW2. I urge you all to visit the site and experience what I did alongside others. It beggars belief that human life can be regarded as so worthless.