FERNWÄRME 

Berlin / Warsaw / Moscow 2003 -2004

 I moved for two months each to Berlin, then to Warsaw, and finally to Moscow.
As a child of the West, I set out to explore the changes of the “East,” moving to the outskirts of the metropolises, far from the hustle and bustle of the big cities. Rather than the oft-heard clichés of violent youths and social problems, I immersed myself in normality and daily life, in search of a sense of home. I found interfaces in these “between places” that shift between city and countryside, tradition and uprooting, nature and industry, hope and despair, emptiness and belonging. Often I walked for hours through the apartment blocks shaped by the East Bloc, and an inner dialogue arose between my own story and the place’s story, between longing for the familiar and a push toward something new and uncertain. The short texts in the book, which I call Handheld Stories, were created diary‑like at these locations and tell of what was experienced, heard, and thought.

3 BOOKs 30 x 40cm à 27 pages,
C-Prints and text with screen printing on Kodak Photo Paper
Editoion 2, self published