Photographer Hannah Altman spent much of this year in Germany and Poland, navigating the gaps of a Holocaust narrative while developing a new body of work. On view at her exhibition Ground Glass which
opened June 21 in Poland.
ARCHER at House 88, Oświęcim.
On January 29, 1943, Lore Sternfeld, a Jewish lens-maker at a company that supplied the optics of Nazi propaganda, was deported from her home in Berlin and murdered upon her arrival at Auschwitz. Ground Glass presents photographs made with a collection of these reclaimed and restored lenses to envision a speculative study of Lore’s inner world during the final winter of her life. More info.
Her project debuted in the In Development column of the Sunday Times.
Altman’s work was included in Heritage: Jewish Artists in America Since 1900 (Syracuse University Press) by Matthew Baigell (along with 23 other Jewish Art Salon members).; her photograph was also recently on the cover of Lilith Magazine.
