Without Digging

Without Digging [Dodeca Meters #8] by Saskia Kahn Without Digging is a collection of documents and photographs created during Saskia Kahn’s journey to the coast of Latvia, where she visited the 1941 massacre site of her great-grandfather–an unmarked industrial landscape by the Liepaja Lighthouse. Various alternative darkroom processes transformed the images, and many feature white streaks made with her fingerprints using chemigrams. By chance, this work was produced in the same summer that scientists used non-invasive radar to confirm the presence of mass graves (without digging). Part of a longer series called "I Can Smell the Water," this project reflects Kahn's pursuit to understand the relationships between land, memory, identity, and justice.