Between City and Country (1998 – 2002)
Betwixt Germanys cities and rural areas lie its towns. „Between City and Country“ is a photographic study of more than 30 of those in-between locations, carried out over a for-year period starting in 1998. The photographs create a panorama of everyday life in towns no one knows but those who live there, places no one wants to go but those call them home. These are towns with populations between 20,000 and 120,000, settings where the everyday takes place beween home and the pedestrian zones.
„Between City and Country“ attempts to shed light on the compression of space in these towns and the non-spaces within them – run-down sections, abandoned parks, blind spots, and gasps. The cameras lens is directed toward the side streets that lead off the pedestrian areas, behind the sights that appear in the glossy pamphlets of the municipial tourist offices, and toward that rarest, beacuse most perfectly-concealed, phenomena: normality.
