Into the West

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.

How often we find that we walk with eyes closed through life. Everyday events left and right, we made our way blinded us to concentrate on the essentials. The base for the essence, we create for our personal goals. Sheer goals, we lose the connection to the poetry of chance, as it is hidden in the commonplace.
In the exploration of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I have resolved, first as free as possible, without having to work to firm goal in mind. I wanted to kidnap me just leave in a world that has its unknown sites. If anything, there is only one objective: to engage the environment to be surprised by people and events - and sometimes even to wonder.
For me it's about not what is beautiful in the conventional sense to siphon off, but the poetic and memorable in the places of discovery-bridges, one of which is otherwise hardly noticed, and to capture situations that usually pass unnoticed.


My photographic journey through the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis is dedicated to the landscape and the existence of the rural people in all their diversity. To me it's mostly about the paradoxical essence of the everyday: to the extraordinary in ordinary, to ritual and routine, between constancy and change, preservation and transfer. This is typical uncovered in the region. But the images also draw attention to the continuous structural change, everywhere, often inconspicuous begins.
Atmospheric views contain the signature of a life in the countryside: rural collective work and recreation, farm and village, sowing and harvesting, rural idyll, traditional customs of church and family, baptism and marriage, brass band and shooting. Adjacent is the dynamics of relationships: the industrialization of agriculture, the boundaries and finding new uses grown conditions, the separation and isolation of the generations, urban sprawl and new use of properties and areas, the encroachment of global residential and leisure industry, the increase in mobility and growing Regionalverstädterung .


The pictures tell their views to detail for detail. They remain not pure in the documentation. Rather, they point to keep the balance between rich irony and pathos in the ambiguity of the tense situation in which rural life is often to escape between reminiscence and nostalgia. Whoever gets the contradictory impressions of leaves, truly in the crossfire of the development. What surprised the observers, the fact of how different speeds of town and country, nature and technology meet in harmony or clash violently can be.