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Honorable Mention BIFA 2026 Fine Art / Other

Cracks in Memory

  • Photographer
    Natalie Truchsess
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in Fine Art / Other

The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin was a sign of an established culture of remembrance — a heavy, unshakeable manifesto against forgetting. Yet, deep cracks in the concrete of the stelae symbolize the awakening of a toxic phenomenon: antisemitism. What once lay hidden as a suppressed hatred is gradually seeping back into public discourse, damaging the very foundation of our coexistence. These photographs document not only the decay of material, but the creeping vulnerability of our democratic and humanitarian values. "Never again" is as fragile as the concrete of these stelae.

After training in photography and an internship at Bayerischer Rundfunk, I worked for several years as a camera assistant. Over time, my visual language shifted toward abstraction. My work begins with reality and explores what can emerge when subject, perception, and camera interact. I work with Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) and developed my own technique, Remodel by Camera Movement (RCM), the basis of my Photographic Lyrical Abstraction. In my Emergographies, everyday things can develop an identity of their own. Together, they form my Photographic Wonder Room.

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