To December 5, 2013 in Leica Gallery in Warsaw, will be shown the first exhibition in Poland of "The Irreversible", project of Maciek Nabrdalik, photographer of "VII Photo Agency"

"The Irreversible" are portraits of former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. It is also a record of meeting face-to-face with their experiences, thoughts and feelings.
The style of these portraits denies the impersonal tone of the Nazi statistics. The striking namelessness of the victims, the numbers recurring in historical reports, and the ongoing debates about how many people really died take away all individuality from the prisoners. This project aims to restore their faces and show a little piece of what they managed to salvage in spite of the cruelty and the humiliation.
The photographs were taken in the survivors’ homes during intimate conversations when they were affected by strong emotions evoked by their memories. Looking at these photographs, one might sense that they have returned to those dark places. More