Paula Luttringer's The wailing of the Walls are photographs that she took after revisiting areas in Argentina that were used as torture chambers during the "Dirty War", a political war where many people were kidnapped and tortured, something never to be seen again, known as the disappeared. She herself was kidnapped during this time while pregnant, and was separated from her child after birth.
Her photographs are a visceral black and white documentation of the places that were used to perform such atrocious acts. They have a haunting sense to them, that although the dirty war is long over, these remnants still remind us of the gruesome crimes that these places bore witness to. The decision to have these photos be in black and white to me enhances the documentary feel to them, as well as create a deserted feel to them.
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