For a decade, photographer Didier Gaillard-Hohlweg captures the rhythm of seasons over the jewish cemetery of Weissensee in Berlin, illustrating the silent that governs its long transformation. Through these numerous images of this vast cemetery, this series completes his documentary work dealing with the notion of amnesia, which constitutes for two decades the common thread of his photographic work. Witnessing the opulence of the jewish community in Berlin before the rise of the nazism, this cemetery now displays a sour vision of an abandoned place. Despite private donations, the maintenance is far too limited compared to the destructive force of nature. A real jungle covers largely its extent, as an illustration of the disrupture Shoah brought in History. According to Regine Robin, Berlin can somehow be considered a palimpsest. Aimed to be denied, symbols of each previous era are destructed to constitute another layer of sedimentation, replaced by new symbols.
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