Light Is My Voice: Images, Legends, and Abstractions explores three themes. With “Darkness into Light,” Todd Weinstein spent six years photographing the reemergence of Jewish life in modern-day Germany. This project helped Weinstein understand how Holocaust survivors could go on with their lives in a country soaked with Jewish blood. It also gave him a deeper understanding of his own Jewish identity and heritage.
As Weinstein continued to document Jewish life in Western Europe after the Holocaust, he began to ask himself “What could have saved the Jews? What could have saved the world?” Weinstein began to think the 36 Righteous Ones of Jewish legend may hold the key. It is said the presence of these 36 keeps the world from destruction in times of peril. By photographing images of human faces and gestures he saw in stone, metal, glass, shadows, fragments and stains, Weinstein found a way to address the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust.
