Some years ago on a work trip to Poland I managed to fit in a visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau Nazi concentration camps. It was a chilly winter afternoon and there were only a handful of other visitors. I didn’t have a great deal of film with me, but managed to get off two rolls of 35mm.

When I got home and examined the contact sheets, I decided I wanted to print the images on a cold tone paper. Hardly anyone makes coldtone anymore. The only available cold tone paper I know of today is made by Ilford and comes in gloss only, which is not the look I wanted. So I decided to experiment with some vintage c. 1960s Hungarian-made Forte Bromofort paper from my vintage paper collection.

I think it gives the look I was after. All of the images are somewhat chilling, but for me, the most chilling of all is the fuzzy, dark image that was taken hurridly inside one of the underground gas chambers in very low light. It’s one of those places you don’t feel comfortable spending much time in and I think that comes across in the image.

Everything was shot on Kodak Tri-X 35mm and printed on vintage Forte Bromofort BN-O paper.