WHO’D have thought a simple wooden railway carriage could make for such a powerful image? We all know what the carriage in Shane Harrison’s photograph represents, however. It comes freighted with horror, and with reminders of the worst that mankind is capable of.

Shane’s photo of Auschwitz is all the more powerful for being so stark: sometimes the simplest images pack the greatest punch. With holocaust memorial day coming up, it is a timely reminder...

The other camera club photos on these pages provide a welcome relief. Several are entries in this month’s #newbeginnings competition, and they represent life and all its possibilities, in contrast to the grim full stop that Shane’s picture symbolises.

There are also two photographs that neatly subvert our way of looking at things. Michael Wallis has captured a much-photographed stretch of York’s city walls. But at night, variously lit by different light sources, the scene takes on a very different appearance. Jane Dicken’s clever photo of Rowntree Park, meanwhile, shows how something as simple as upending a photograph can challenge our perspective.

Stephen Lewis