An Inconvenient Place

What is a place? With the photographer Antoine d’Agata, before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Jonathan Littell began to survey Babyn Yar, the site of the 1941 massacre of the Jews of Kyiv, and the traces left on the landscape. A place whose traces we erase as quickly as possible. How then to write, how to photograph when, there is literally nothing to see – or almost nothing?