Het laatste jaar 1944-45 Een verslag in foto's onderdrukking en bevrijding

Black-and-white photographs of the Netherlands in the last year of the German occupation, from the oppression of the winter of 1944-45, including the Hunger Winter, to the liberation. Oorthuys made the pictures in the final months of the occupation as a member of De Ondergedoken Camera, a group of Amsterdam photographers who worked in secret. The group formed around Dolle Dinsdag, 5 September 1944, to record the expected liberation, and when that did not come it documented the remaining months of the occupation instead. These photographs launched his career as an independent photographer and stayed with him for the rest of his life. He found it hard to talk about his own camp experiences and other wartime memories, yet he returned to these images several times in later work. The book is a photographic report, a documentary record of the period in image sequence.