This image was taken during a visit to Auschwitz, in Oświęcim, southern Poland. The photograph constructs a layered visual field in which faces, drawings, and fragments of historical texts overlap, collapsing different temporal records into a single frame. The gaze of a young woman anchors the composition, while archival images and handwritten notes invade her presence, refusing the separation between past and present. The superimposition does not illustrate history; it confronts it. Memory emerges here as something unstable and persistent, inscribed on surfaces rather than contained within a single subject. By merging the contemporary visitor with traces of ideological violence, the image actively reflects on how history inhabits the present, shaping perception, responsibility, and the very act of looking.

* August 04, 2002
* Auschwitz, Poland
* GPS: 50.0274473, 19.1986316
* From the series: Spirit of Earth — World Heritage
* Object number: #34.POL-SEH.2002
* Photograph. 70×50 cm. Ed. 1/12 + 3 AP
* Print on Hahnemüle Photo Rag Matt Baryta, 308 g/m²