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Castle ruin on a rocky headland above the sea in Scotland

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VERGESSENE PRACHT: Twelve countries, four years and the question of whether the subject ever grows dull

In 2019 I began a project that took me far beyond Italy: to Scotland and Wales, to Portugal and Spain, as far as Georgia and Abkhazia. It became VERGESSENE PRACHT, my book about abandoned places all over Europe.

1. October 2023

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Statue of the Virgin before autumn-red Virginia creeper at the Cimetière de l'Est in Metz, France

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MEMENTO: My journey to the cemeteries of Europe

Cemeteries have drawn me since I was young: places of silence where one comes to oneself. With MEMENTO I gave them a book of their own and photographed differently than ever before, close up, handheld and with an eye for small things.

1. September 2022

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Multi storey mill ruin on a cliff face, Campania, Italy

Photo books · Italy

MELANCHOLIA: My journey into the south of Italy

Three years after NOSTALGIA I did not want to make a sequel but to show the Italy I did not yet know. For the first time I travelled to the south of the mainland: bad roads, magnificent landscapes, forgotten villages and encounters that have stayed with me.

25. October 2018

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Open wooden door with a lake view amid overgrown plants in Italy

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NEULAND: A book about what nature makes of our buildings

After NOSTALGIA I did not want to make a second book about places but one about a transformation: what happens when people leave and the plants arrive? NEULAND leads through six countries and every stage of that change.

29. May 2017

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Hall with mythological frescoes in an abandoned villa in Tuscany

Photo books · Italy

NOSTALGIA: How six years of Italy became my first large book

In 2009 I travelled to Italy for the first time, and the country has not let go of me since. Six years later NOSTALGIA was published: 320 pages on forgotten places between Milan and Rome. How the book came about, why its places carry no names, and what keeps me there.

1. October 2015

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Curved staircase before red painted walls in a wine estate in Switzerland

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TALES OF YESTERYEAR: The first book I made alone, and the villa on its cover

In 2014 I made a book the way I imagined it, without a publisher and entirely on my own. On its cover is Villa Branca on Lake Lugano. I photographed it in 2009. When I wanted to return in 2011, it had been demolished.

2. June 2014

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