Author Archives: ChrisS

Two “Covid is like a catalyst for us, everything happens faster.” Just one year after their first encounter, Alex and her partner Max get married. To minimize the commute to each other and thus the risk of infection, they move into a small shared room together. Shortly after, they open up their relationship.

Thinking of flowers Pain is a reaction to a multitude of losses throughout life: the loss of a job, the loss of freedom, the loss of a loved one. For lives shaped by migration there is an ongoing letting go that comes with adaptation and integration. Collaborative portraits show women and their personal coping strategies.

Seniors Women in a Berlin care facility found the pandemic hard, but as a wartime generation, they’d seen difficult times before: “The pandemic was tough, but we did not freeze and we did not starve.” One of the hardest things was the closing of all sports activities, and the relief was great when dancing, swimming …

Continue reading “Jacobia Dahm”

Factory workers Since Covid-19, our world of work has been divided up according to its ‘system relevance’. Besides nurses or cashiers, many professions are relevant but nearly invisible. In the food industry, women work shifts on the assembly line and are paid low wages despite physically demanding work.

In Conversation Isolation and a loss of social contact harm people in ways we do not yet fully understand. Most of us have had extraordinary experiences over the past year and a half. In Conversation reflects the exchanges of four Berlin women photographers following the first lockdown. A project about friendship and closeness as well …

Continue reading “Katrin Streicher, Alina Simmelbauer, Marzena Skubatz & Franziska Rieder”

Retreat to the mountains The definition of retreat: to withdraw, to retire, perhaps because one is inferior. The decision to isolate herself in the mountains enabled the photographer to deal more consciously with solitude and to live in resonance with nature. An inner as well as outer retreat.

Midwives Midwives support mothers – before, during and after birth. But they often work under precarious circumstances with poor pay and a lot of stress. What is it like to be pregnant under Corona, to give birth to a child, and to support it as a midwife?

Rest and recreation Leisure time, and the mental and physical health that comes with it, has often been neglected during this time – whether because women were lonely, were under great pressure, or had to manage too much. Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin offers a haven, where women could recharge, meet other people, withdraw, or do …

Continue reading “Giulia Thinnes”

Young Doctors What is the reality for young female physicians who started their careers in 2020? Insights into an intense working environment of the physicians who expose themselves to it on a daily basis.

Floçka  “Floçka” is the name of the mystical nymph of Albanian legend. She represents death as the essence of life itself. The photograph wants to create a contrast to the contemporary representations of death. People have elevated life to an absolute value above all else, banished death, and thus lost the ability to confront their …

Continue reading “Abi Shehu”