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Mixed feelings

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By Henk ter Heide

This photo invokes mixed feelings in me.

Looking at photos or paintings I’m usually more interested in colors and shapes then in the actual subject of the picture.
I was looking through Uccrow photo set Explore’d.
Most are of landscapes and buildings he has visited. Uccrow photographs them in a way that a lot of browns and reds show in the pictures. Giving the pictures a warm feeling.

One of the pictures that stood out was of an old room. Like the rest of the pictures there is a kind of warmth. But it is more then that. The picture invokes a feeling of nostalgia in me. This room looks a lot like my old school. Accept that this room feels older. The way the color of the walls shine through the paint and the blackness of the central heating reinforces that feeling.
The picture is called “Half way”. Maybe some kind of waiting area?

Half way by Uccrow

Then I read the caption.
This room is in Dachau and it is indeed a waiting room of sorts.
This is were the Germans stacked the dead bodies before burning them. The door on the right leads to the gas chamber and the door on the left to a crematorium.
This warm pictures turns out to be of a very cold room.

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