Untitled (Collaborators, St. Tropez, France) after 1944

Constance Stuart Larrabee made this black and white photograph, Untitled (Collaborators, St. Tropez, France), sometime during her career as a photojournalist. I’m immediately drawn to the standing figures and their shaved heads. What does it feel like, as an artist, to capture such a moment? What does it mean to hold that image, to frame it, to expose it, and then develop it in the dark room? You are composing something, deciding on a single moment that you believe speaks for something greater. In doing so, you commit to the act of remembrance. What was she thinking as she pressed the shutter? I imagine she was thinking, how can I make this moment live on? This photograph resonates with work by other artists, like those of photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, who also documented the human condition through the stark realities of war and its aftermath. Artists are in an ongoing conversation across time, inspiring one another's creativity and reflecting the world back to us.