The project „LET THIS DEAD PHOTOGRAPH REMINDS YOU OF ME ALIVE“ deals with reenactment events in Poland. Its focus is on the historical reconstruction of the Second World War through staging and reenactment of the most important battles between 1939-1945 on Polish territories. In this examination of the Polish national trauma of World War II, I am interested in the structures of Polish war memory. The inspiration for this work is the story of my grandmother, who ran away from home at the age of 17 to fight in World War II. She sent her mother a photograph from the front in 1945. On the back it was written: „let this dead photograph reminds you of me alive“. The central question that my camera focus on is, first and foremost, how do people in Poland play the war that is heavily romanticized in public debates; in other words, what exactly is idealized in Polish memory of the war? The project's procedure consists of taking analog black-and-white photographs, which in the next step are recolored. On the one hand, this fulfills the experience longed for by the many reenactment participants of "bringing to life" the old black-and-white war photographs. At the same time, on the basis of the colorization work, patterns of war memory are exposed. The approach of coloring the reenactment photos thus brings the mediality of photography into focus in order to reveal the complexity of Polish war memory.