The Amnesia Archives (working title), 2006 - in progress.
The Amnesia Archives is a series of large format color photographs, shot on locations with a history of violent acts or events. I grew up in Israel, a country with immediate associations to violence, yet one of my earliest visual memories is of the surveillance camera photograph of Patty Hearst, during the SLA bank robbery. Although I was too young – and far away – to understand the full implications of this image. The resonance of the image stayed with me and has become the basis of The Amnesia Archive - a project that examines locations where violent acts of different natures took place. It is exploring real place and real time events and their fictionalized and mythologized relationship to the real, and investigate the relationships between private and collective memory, power and control, while unfolding the photographic reladscape and history.
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Tehachapi Loop, Kern county,CA. 1876
The Tehachapi Loop is part of the Southern Pacific/Santa Fe rail line that goes through the Tehachapi area. Due to the steep grade, railway engineers building the track in the 1870's made a loop, where the track makes a full circle to gain altitude. The construction was undertaken by American engineers and Chinese workmen. The Chinese were mostly recruited from Canton area. Construction tools were mostly dynamite, picks and shovels. Many of the workmen were killed during this dangerous work.
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