Projekts & Exhibitions
Intersections
It was no secret in our family that my grandfather was, for a certain amount of time, a prisoner in a concentration camp.
Actually, this fact was so familiar to all of us that we never even questioned it. It was only years later that I started to ask myself the following questions: why, for how long and in which camps was he a prisoner? I found out that he was not willing not work diligently enough and was therefore forced to work in several camps for six years.
Stations were the camps: Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Mittelbau Dora, Bergen-Belsen (place of his liberation).
A few decades later and during my work as a freelance photographer, my paths crossed by chance many times with my grandfather’s. Photo assignments would bring me to the exact same places where he used to be an concentration camp inmate.
That was the reason why I began my work called »Intersections«: landscapes and places where my grandfather used to be a prisoner – not as a documentation of the memorials, but as an approach by the means of landscape photography. Often I did not photograph within the camp itself, but rather in the immediate surroundings.
