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Centre of Obsolescence

This photo series was shot in Terezín, a former concentration camp. With an eye for quiet details and natural light, this series explores traces of life and loss. A personal reflection, captured with a Hasselblad and shot on film.

Awards

Photographer of the Year Contest

2025

Bronze

Film/Analog

Non Professional

Centre of Obsolescence

This photo series was shot in Terezín, a former concentration camp. With an eye for quiet details and natural light, this series explores traces of life and loss. A personal reflection, captured with a Hasselblad and shot on film.

About Artist

Marieke Berkelaar

Marieke Berkelaar is a photographer and graphic designer from Leerdam, the Netherlands. The combination of her photography and her passion for the past takes you back in time. In recent years, Marieke has mainly focused on capturing a piece of history; old and abandoned buildings. Places that give the impression that they have been abandoned from one moment to the next, who want to tell the stories of their time and where no one has been for years. She wants the viewer to wonder what happened. Wants them to unravel the how, what, and why behind the photo and feel the melancholy. She is ready to start the dialog.

Marieke Berkelaar

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Architecture

Location

Netherlands

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