Adam Bujak, Oświęcim-Brzezinka (1972-1973)

Bujak’s first album is devoted to Auschwitz-Birkenau seen from the perspective of a person coming there as a tourist. The former death camp was now a place commemorating the victims of Nazism. In the eyes of the communist authorities, its symbolic and propagandic significance grew during the nineteen sixties and seventies. Here, Bujak creates a new iconography, treating the grounds of the camp like a kind of site for an open-air photographic workshop session, underscoring the tragic history of the place with his expressive frames.