Carol Inez Charney San Jose State University Carol Inez Charney received her B.A. in Painting from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1985. In the summer of 1997, she began a body of work in which she photographed Holocaust survivors. During the past two years, Charney’s work has evolved into a visual exploration of how Holocaust survivors are affected by their traumatic memories, focusing on how painful memories, when recollected, separate us from our present reality and how, when we return to the present, we have been altered by these memories. Her work is a visual representation of the fragmented psyche caused by trauma and it explores how, in spite of such adversity, the soul still finds a way to emerge and seek a higher truth. She then sequences these images to bear witness to each survivor in the way a series of film stills communicates a story without the use of words. Carol is currently working on her M.F.A in photography at San Jose State University.