November 11th – December 17th 2026
From November 11th to December 17th 2026 the atrium space at Holocaust Centre North will be host to a temporary exhibition of works from the photographer Richard Wood’s project A Dark Road Without Horizon. This major research project documents six sites from the Aktion T4 programme and poses questions about how they are memorialised and remembered.
From 1939 to 1945, the Aktion T4 programme murdered an estimated 300,000 German citizens; the majority of victims had disabilities, however, the T4 sites also murdered political prisoners and POW’s. The final images explore Wood’s position as a post-factum witness to these events through his visits to Hadamar, Schloss Hartheim, Schloss Grafeneck, Brandenburg, Bernburg, and Pirna Sonnenstein where this euthanasia programme was carried out. The exhibition explores the relationship between meaning and memory and resonance is not inherent but created through personal, lived experience.
If you would like to know more about this project head to our blogs, where you can read our Curatorial Officer’s interview with Richard Wood, providing insight into the methodology of the project, as well as offering a contemplation on what it is like to work alongside traumatic histories such as Aktion T4.
If you would like to ask Richard any questions, join us on the evening of November 10th 2026 for the exhibition preview at 5pm.
After a quiet preview of the work, Richard Wood will be in conversation with Dr David Rudrum (Department of Media, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Huddersfield) discussing disability memorialisation and in tandem with lived experience of diability in the present day.
Book your free ticket to the launch here!
Biography:
Richard Wood is a research-led documentary photographer and educator specialising in the intersection of neurodiversity, disability, and historical social issues.
His major research project, A Dark Road Without Horizon, interrogates, via autoethnography, the Aktion T4 atrocities in National Socialist Germany. A Dark Road Without Horizon received the Photomonitor Commendation Award in 2024 and was acquired by the UAL Special Historical Collection.
Wood’s extensive research acts as a post-factum witness to attitudes and crimes committed, encouraging reflection on current social attitudes toward disability by viewers of his work. This approach to photography was developed under the tutorship of the British photojournalist Dr Paul Lowe (Professor of Conflict, Peace and the Image at the University of the Arts London) during Wood’s MA in Photojournalism (2024).
With a practice shaped by a deep commitment to uncovering hidden histories, Wood’s trauma-informed practice aims to present these narratives to contemporary audiences as a stark reminder of past atrocities and the importance of social care and inclusivity.