Venue
The North Wall
Starts
Monday, June 7, 2010
Ends
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Address
The North Wall Arts Centre South Parade Oxford OX2 7NN
Location
South West England

Nicholas Hedges’ large photographic installations are concerned with history- but he interprets history not as a series of distant events that are dead and buried, but a collection of encounters and dialogues between the past and the present, that are very much a part of now. By exploring family history, memories and the private histories of individuals unknown, Nicholas Hedges’ work mostly draws on experiences at sites of historic trauma: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec and Majdanek, Ypres and Verdun. His work examines the needs of those that feel compelled to visit these sites of mass destruction- sometimes called ‘dark tourists’- and his own needs to connect with his ancestry after visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2006.