Memory Traces is an unconventional photo-book in which Cary Markerink (1951) relates to notions about landscape, culture, history and memory. Composed to be a multi-layered experience, a selection of landscape photographs are combined with several texts including excerpts from travelogues, 'written photographs' and a short story situated in the art-world which, among other things, deals with 'The Artification of Photography'.
A second separate booklet consists of the reproduction of a Chernobyl family album of found negatives.
The large format photographs were made in Sarajevo; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Berlin, Bitterfeld-Wolfen and Ronneburg; Bikini Island and Nam Island; Chernobyl; Khe San and My Lai.