Brandenburg

My investigation of Brandenburg, the state that surrounds Berlin and which for over 40 years sat inside East Germany, is a look into the past through the present. The region that has been described as bleak, austere and unforgiving. For over six years I worked on this project. The overall picture, however, is not a cliched collection of dilapidation and decrepitude, but a subtle series of allusions to the historical, structural and social changes Brandenburg has experienced since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Combining the personal, political and geographical, my images create a semantics of the region’s unique characteristics, offering the reader an unsentimental history of Brandenburg, beyond the realm of temporality.