Another Place
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54o 4’ 25.86’’ N
11o 33’ 14.252’’ E

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Another Place

 02.02.2025 



Another Place is an exploration of memory and identity, shaped by the space between past and present, between what is remembered and what remains. It is a search for something intangible—for traces of a place that is both deeply familiar and distant at once.

This project is rooted in conversations with my mother. Her memories of life in a country she once called home unfold in fragments—fleeting images, moments suspended in time, details sharpened or softened by distance. She speaks of belonging and estrangement, of a country still in the process of defining itself, of a home that was, for her, never entirely whole.

Through photography, I navigate these stories, moving through landscapes she once inhabited and those she later came to call home. Stepping into spaces that no longer hold the same meaning, I trace the echoes of a life that has been lived across borders. The ground I encounter is not the one she describes. Some places have changed, others have disappeared. Memory has its own architecture–what is lost is just as present as what remains.
The photographs do not aim to reconstruct the past, nor do they seek to capture a singular truth. Instead, it lingers in the in-between—in the tension between inherited history and personal experience, in the distance between what was and what is.

The images in this series are not representations, but echoes. They hold something unresolved, something shifting. A landscape that belongs to two perspectives at once. A place that is both remembered and unknown.

At its core, Another Place is about the fluidity of identity, the instability of memory, and the ways in which we carry the past with us—sometimes without realizing it. It is about home, but not as a fixed point. Home as movement, as absence, as something that is always just slightly out of reach.



Exhibited 02.02.2025 at Alte Münze, Berlin
Jüdische Kunstschule Berlin, Institut für Neue Soziale Plastik











54o 4’ 25.86’’ N
11o 33’ 14.252’’ E

De Drom Galerie

01.08. – 10.10.2019



A place off-limits, inaccessible to most, its history embedded in crumbling walls and overgrown paths. The Halbinsel Wustrow lies on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, just across the water from the seaside town of Rerik. Once a fishing village, later a military stronghold, today it remains frozen in time—sealed off, its future uncertain.

For decades, Wustrow was shaped by shifting powers. In the early 20th century, it was transformed into a military training ground, first used by the German army and later taken over by the Soviet forces after World War II. Entire infrastructures were built—barracks, bunkers, air-raid shelters, even a school and a hospital. When the Soviet troops withdrew in the early 1990s, the peninsula was abandoned, declared private property, and closed to the public.

Despite its inaccessibility, traces of its past remain remarkably intact. Unlike so-called "Lost Places" Wustrow has been left largely undisturbed. The absence of intrusion preserves not just the architecture, but also the quiet tension between past function and present stillness.
The remnants of past lives linger: faded Cyrillic inscriptions, delicate pastel-colored walls, and children’s drawings left behind in what might have been a Soviet-era infirmary. These traces do not tell a linear story, nor do they serve as historical documentation. Instead, they exist as fragments—shaped by time, yet resistant to erasure.

Through photography, these spaces are observed as they are—without reconstruction, without resolution. The images do not attempt to reclaim what was, nor do they predict what will be. They simply hold the weight of what remains.

The series was first exhibited at De Drom Galerie, Kröpelin, from August 1 to October 10, 2019, alongside works by photographer Sven Kierst.


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