The survivors were young during the Holocaust and down the years have become parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. This family aspect cuts to the heart of the project. Sian Bonnell’s picture of Tomi Komoly – someone simply in their garden wearing their good clothes – has such a warm and personal feel that you wouldn’t be surprised if it was a family picture.” And the photographers often became close to their subjects and kept in touch. There are some very traditional portraits but also things that look like they are out of glossy magazines. “All the photographers know what they are doing so I just asked them to treat it as one of their own projects. “There was no uniform brief,” says Marshall-Grant. Marshall-Grant has invited fellows of the RPS – as well as its patron the Duchess of Cambridge, who, in an unexpected juxtaposition, shares wall space with the Sun’s longtime royal photographer Arthur Edwards – to capture the survivors at their homes, often surrounded by their families. “Then in spring of last year, when things were looking a little more open, we tried again and it came together remarkably smoothly.” “Of course lockdown ensured that didn’t happen,” says the RPS project curator, Tracy Marshall-Grant. The exhibition was initially intended to run in 2020, to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945, and plans were made to photograph the 70 or so Holocaust survivors living in the UK.
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