Night Harbor

For half a year the Neuss Harbor in Germany was my nightly aim. I used analog equipment. All photos have been taken between 11:00 pm and 03:00 am. The pictures resulted from long exposure times and the existing light of the lamps and neon signs. I photographed in wintertime, but even the cold, rain and dark helped me to take pleasure in a certain aesthetic of this morbid industrial landscape. I do wish that this photographs touch particularly positive images and their underlying feelings, which are connected with the notion „harbor“. With it, I mean for instance to leave all known and devote oneself to the immediacy of strangeness, the spell of otherness. It would be an act of liberation from the burden of the past, as only all too often the memory is shifting like a filter between our everyday perceptions and takes the soul prisoner. Therefore my hope applies to freedom, even if it arises perhaps just momentarily in the eye of the observer. –Georg Worecki