Silent Places

"Silent Places contains over a hundred emotionally moving images of what was once the home of the largest concentration of Diaspora Jews--taken by Jeffrey Gusky, a self-taught photographer. Gusky traveled through Eastern Europe, beyond the city ghettos and the sites of concentration camps, into remote villages where Jews had lived and worked for almost 1,000 years before the Holocaust. He has captured on film the austere landscapes and the remains of a once thriving Jewish culture. The doleful, understated clarity of what Gusky saw and photographed elicits a poignant sense of loss--making at the same time an indelible connection to the past.