Work Shall Set You Free

This is a picture of the front gate of one of the first concentration camps set up to imprison and eventually murder political prisoners of the Nazy regime, including Jews. It in the city of Dacau, which is a suburb of Munich in the south of Germany.

It's ironic that the inscription says "work shall set you free" because rarely did that happen. This was a sobering place, especially when you consider the conditions in which they were all forced to live...and some die.

I thought this shot looked better in black and white than in color. And something about skewing the composition fit with the mood of the day. I darkened the photo up a bit to make the iron in the bars stand out a bit more.

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