Schlagwort: Angehörige

  • Peter Dekens : (un)expected

    Peter Dekens : (un)expected

    Fotografien und Text von Peter Dekens In 2008 the mother of documentary photographer Peter Dekens (BEL)took her life and just recently a friend did the same. West Flanders, theregion where he grew up, has one of the highest suicide rates in Europe,one and a half times higher than the European average and twice as many…

  • Peter Watkins : The Unforgetting

    Peter Watkins : The Unforgetting

    Verlagstext: In February 1993, Peter Watkins’s mother walked from Zandvoort beachinto the North Sea to her death. The Unforgetting is the artist’s long-term exploration of trauma, loss, andshared familial memory, all woven into a series of works that have beencreated over a number of years, and now for the first time come together in the…

  • Laia Abril : The Epilogue

    Laia Abril : The Epilogue

    Verlagstext: This is the story of the Robinson family – and the aftermath of losing their26 year-old daughter to bulimia. Cammy Robinson’s life story is reconstructed through flashbacksmemories, testimonies, objects, letters, places and images. The Epiloguegives voice to the suffering of the family, the indirect victims of ‘eatingdisorders’, the unwilling eyewitnesses of a very painful…

  • Nan Goldin: „Soeurs, Saintes et Sybilles“

    Nan Goldin: „Soeurs, Saintes et Sybilles“

    Text der Fotografin: „Sœurs, Saintes et Sybilles est un hommage à ma sœur et à toutes les femmes rebelles qui se battent pour survivre dans la société. Je voulais questionner au travers de ces trois récits le piège de l’enfermement, au propre comme au figuré. L’histoire de sainte Barbara, décapitée par son père pour s’être…

  • Peter Pflügler: „Now is not the Right Time“

    Peter Pflügler: „Now is not the Right Time“

    Verlagstext: „When I was two years old, my father went into the woods, with the intention of never coming back.“ Peter Pflügler (AT) takes us on an intimate journey through the labyrinth of a family secret. The suicide attempt of his father was concealed for twenty years. And yet he has always somehow known. Carefully…

  • Junpei Ueda: „Picture of My Life“

    Junpei Ueda: „Picture of My Life“

    Text des Fotografen: „I have this desire to sum up my life in the form of a story. My parents killed themselves, one after the other, in the winter of 1998.My mother’s depression led her to take her own life, and my father followed her nine days later. Having suddenly a closer relationship with death…