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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.

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

Projects · 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.

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Hall with mythological frescoes in an abandoned villa in Tuscany

Projects · 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.

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