Sky Art is a rather neglected TV program here but it does come up with some interesting niche films on Photography from time to time. This particular film has been transmitted in the past but its repeat is most appropriate matching,(almost), as it does, Holocaust Memorial Day.
The subject of this film was the photographer Dorothy Bohm. now in her 90's and resident in Hampstead it provides a moving story of a girl who escaped here as a Lithuinian Jewish refugee before the war. Her work was partly produced on on a Leica with a Leica enlarger .Later work seems to involve a Nikon and above all a Rolleiflex which was used to make a host of work from the 1950,s in London and Switzerland,
.Dorothy was one of the first Management of the Photographers Gallery.
I shall not try to recap the wealth of detail contained over this one hour film which is in part inspired by a similar BBC film of 1980, Try to see it if you can find it on one of the repeat services.
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