Leaving Today 2

For a long time, I found it difficult to write about my experiences in New York. “Those who leave books behind are reborn as donkeys seven times in a row”, I once read. Words and pictures, it said, are fingers pointing to the moon. Whoever looks at the fingers will not see the moon, i.e. the essence. The essence, what was it 20 years ago when I was in New York between 2001 and 2003? It was probably this incredible positivity. No matter whether I was talking to a letter carrier, a waitress in a diner or a bank employee on Wall Street – people almost always met me with interest and openness. „Do what you love to do“, „Anything is possible“ and „You’ll make it“, they told me at every turn and it had an incredible power. It turned me into a photographer.

2019
36 photographs in black and white and color. Shots from New York between 2001 and 2003. All 12 color images were taken on September 11, 2001. Landscape format. 40 pages, 300 copies (sold out)