Honorable Mention / 2024 / Architecture / Historic

• Photographer
  Wafa Mathiot, France

This poignant photograph transports us to the heart of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial. The scene unfolds within a grid of 2,711 concrete stelae, each standing as a silent witness to the unfathomable tragedy of the Holocaust.

The stelae vary in height, their monolithic forms creating a symmetrical labyrinth. As we peer down one of the narrow corridors, the play of light and shadow is haunting. The concrete slabs, bathed in muted illumination, evoke both solemnity and disquiet. Their ordered arrangement hints at a lost logic, a system severed f