I am going through my images from Auschwitz and making my project when I came across this photo. I am doing the whole project in black and white, but when I saw this little girl's shoe, I knew I had to add color to the image.
Many people see pictures of what happened there at Auschwitz and the images are mostly in black and white, which gives them a timeless feel to them, but it also makes it seem like this happened so long ago. There are still people alive now that survived the horrendous conditions there.
With this photo, I wanted to give the image that timeless feel and the emotion that a black and white image brings, but also bridge that gap of time and make it relevant to people now by bringing it to life with color. The young child that wore that shoe is no longer here on this earth, but thousands of people everyday visit this place and pay their respects to her and the 1.1 million others that suffered there.
There really isn't much else that I can write on this subject other than never forget about these people.
