nicht anfang und nicht ende (2017-ongoing)

»nicht anfang und nicht ende« (engl.: »neither here nor there«) is an ongoing artistic engagement with the subject of Europe, its peripheries and frontiers, which originated during the so-called »refugee crisis« in 2015 with a series of portraits of refugees stranded at the Hungarian border on their way to Western Europe (see also: 'Portraits from along the way'). The project focuses on the various transit- and migration-movements towards Western Europe, a »Promised Land« for many. In multiple episodes, the project encounters different lifeworlds all over the continent, at its peripheries and frontiers; people who find themselves in a state of 'in-between', of transit – between nomadism and inertia – in their pursuit for the promises and possibilities of Europe. 

EPISODE #01 (Romania)
Each year, approximately 750.000 Romanians leave their country for reasons of labor-migration to Western Europe, most of them between 20 and 40 years old. They harvest our fruit and vegetables, they build our houses, they take care of your elderly – the new working class of a globalized economy, invisible yet indispensable. For EPISODE #01 of the project, I accompanied migratory workers from Romania all the way to Western Europe. And I traveled the Romanian countryside to photograph those who stay.

»untitled«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 4-part, 35 cm x 50 cm each, collage of pigment-prints & UV-print on glass (text)

DETAIL: »untitled«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 4-part, 35 cm x 50 cm each, collage of pigment-prints & UV-print on glass (text)

DETAIL: »untitled«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 4-part, 35 cm x 50 cm each, collage of pigment-prints & UV-print on glass (text)

«smoking studies«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 8-part, 25,5 cm x 47,5 cm each, pigment-prints on Japanese mulberry-paper

DETAIL from: «smoking studies«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 25,5 cm x 47,5 cm, pigment-prints on Japanese mulberry-paper

DETAIL from: «smoking studies«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 25,5 cm x 47,5 cm, pigment-prints on Japanese mulberry-paper

DETAIL from: «smoking studies«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 25,5 cm x 47,5 cm, pigment-prints on Japanese mulberry-paper

DETAIL from: «smoking studies«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 25,5 cm x 47,5 cm, pigment-prints on Japanese mulberry-paper

DETAIL from: «smoking studies«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 25,5 cm x 47,5 cm, pigment-prints on Japanese mulberry-paper

»harvest (watermelons)«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 5-part, 50 cm x 70 cm / 35 cm x 50 cm, pigment-prints

DETAIL from: »harvest (watermelons)«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 50 cm x 70 cm, pigment-print

DETAIL from: »harvest (watermelons)«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 50 cm x 70 cm, pigment-print

DETAIL from: »harvest (watermelons)«, from Episode #01 (Romania), diptych, 35 cm x 50 cm each, pigment-prints

DETAIL from: »harvest (watermelons)«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 50 cm x 70 cm, pigment-print

DETAIL from: »harvest (watermelons)«, from Episode #01 (Romania), 50 cm x 70 cm, pigment-print

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