EIN DORF
ZEIGT SICH
The project ‘Ein Dorf zeigt sich’ (A Village Shows Itself) uses public space to create new encounters. To communicate. To discover common ground and bridge divides.
During the coronavirus pandemic from 2020/2021 until spring 2022, human contact was kept to a minimum. Among other things, this resulted in social isolation, the effects of which are still being felt today.
[*]In the summer of 2021, I ran an ice cream van in Damnatz as a photographer with the idea of creating a place where villagers and passers-by could meet and talk, while complying with the coronavirus rules still in force. Next to the ice cream van, I set up a mobile photo tent and took portraits of the people of the village and the community with the aim of making them larger than life. I have rarely had as much fun as a photographer as I did last year when I was allowed to photograph you, and I know you enjoyed it too! Other people will find their way into your community from outside. The reason for this is the large portraits of you on site. This allows you to openly show your village life, which is often closed to the outside world. But you also encounter each other in a new way. You see yourselves differently through the large portraits of yourselves, both for yourselves and for others who see you. A new form of communication will take place, which can connect you even more.
