Deutschlandbilder Images of Germany - PART I

17 Sep-27 Oct 2010

Overview

We are pleased to present works by eight members of the Berlin-based photographic agency OSTKREUZ. The photographers offer a multifaceted panorama of the supposedly familiar and the new. In their survey the OSTKREUZ members raise fundamental questions – such as what distinguishes a sense of belonging from what is alien, such as identity and the future, people’s personal needs and their desires, everyday life and the unconventional. One recurrent theme in all photographic sequences is the concept of native identity or homeland – formulated in the pervasive yet elusive German term Heimat – as a geographical, social and political determinant, but also as an expression of sentiments and desires.