jason francisco home photo works writings contact The Shoah Scrolls The Shoah Scrolls (1998) concerns the documentary photographs of the Holocaust, their alternately visceral and uncertain place in memory. The project investigates the nature of the direct appeal that the historical photographs make, the ambiguous qualities of their testimony, and the ways that remembrance is both an ethical imperative, and a perilous task of reconstructing catastrophic events. Moving “into” the historical images, I reaggregate their aspects to form twenty 1 x (approximately) 25 foot scrolls, each treating a complex of related events, for example mass murder in the villages of the East, the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto, forced labor at Birkenau. The prints are digitally made; altogether the project comprises twenty scrolls. Selected images 02D0B43A-D36D-45BD-B249-5D6CEA8B4556.htmlPHOTO%20WORKS.htmlWRITINGS.htmlmailto:jlfrancisco@earthlink.net?subject=email%20subjectSHOAH%20contents.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4