Photo book "2021 Edited": Stories told in pictures

The 15 selected series of images take the viewer to different places around the globe: they show Berlin nightlife, New York's

, female hunters in the forests of southern France, Polish military camps for children and young people, or the desert of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.

The photo series by the photographers not only tell of these places, but also of the people who live in these places and their experiences.

Eva Neukirchner

picture editor

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"2021 Edited" is the eleventh edition of a book series that documents the long-standing collaboration between the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin and the

in New York City.

The photo series were photographed by graduates of both schools and edited by the photo editing class 2021/22 of the Ostkreuz School.

Five double pages each give an insight into the visual language of the young photo artists and the stories from the past year.

For Ekaterina Zershchikova, the terms faith, hope and love are metaphors for her home country of Russia. In her photo series, she gives an insight into the life of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who now live in Berlin.

In her photo series "Běła Woda" (Sorbian for Weisswasser), Catharina Tews portrays the area around the town of Weisswasser in Upper Lusatia.

She manages to capture an abandoned, surreal and melancholy mood that dominates the atmosphere there.

The collaborative project "Mind Colors" was created together with patients from a psychiatric hospital in Rome and fights against discrimination against people with mental illnesses.

The portraits in combination with the patients' works of art show the personality and realities of life of the persons and are intended to break down prejudices.

It is said that you cannot choose your own family.

Family celebrations are often attended with lukewarm enthusiasm - wrongly so.

Robert Gemming captured the absurd, the comical, the tragic and the extraordinary in his photos.

The intimate portraits of Eva Zanettin from the "Womanhood" series were photographed in Berlin during the Corona lockdown and paint a multifaceted picture of femininity and being a woman.

In her series “Like the Tide”, Chiara Negrello gives an insight into the life of mussel fishermen from a small village on the Po Delta in Italy.

These women have been doing the hard physical work for three generations and thus contribute to the economic boom of the region.

In addition to working as fishermen, family life also plays an important role for the women.

The photo series thus questions stereotypical notions of femininity and what work can be done by women.

"Moeder Taal: Mourning Walks" was created during the photographer's stay in a psychiatric hospital.

Carin van der Donk went for early morning walks every day - a habit that her mother actually cultivated.

The "Mourning Walks" and their photographic documentation helped the photographer to process the grief of her death.

Last year, New York's

was hardly visited by tourists.

Rather, it became a place of recreation and relaxation for the inhabitants of the metropolis.

The photo series "Niewybuch" shows how children and young people in military camps are taught obedience and how to use weapons in a playful way.

The photo project raises the question of the emotional impact of this military training.

In her photo story, Eli Farinango, who emigrated to Canada as a child, searches for her own identity and her cultural origins in the Kichwa community in Ecuador.

Since indigenous issues are becoming more and more integrated into social discourse, she finds it particularly important to make indigenous stories visible and tangible from a first-person perspective.

Milan Koch captured strange, funny and scary things in his “Territorium” and thus paints a fascinating picture of Berlin's nightlife.

Maria Trombini's photo series tells the story of Nico, which revolves around the themes of identity, self-awareness and acceptance, and draws attention to the challenges faced by transgender people, their friends and families in Italy.

In "The Waiting" Camille Lenain shows female hunters from southern France and the American southern states.

In a society where women are often portrayed as victims or 'prey', the Slayers turn the tables and challenge conventional notions of femininity.

What You Would Seem to Be follows Ian Morton on his journey to self-acceptance as a

.

Photography is used as an introspective medium and is intended to make visible one's own emotional value between pride and shame.

In The Longing of a Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken, Rehab Eldalil explores her Bedouin roots in southern Egypt.

The photographer has incorporated traditional arts such as embroidery and poetry into her photo series to engage the subjects and provide a broader glimpse into the life of the people.

The photo book can be bought from the graduates of the photo editing class at the Ostkreuz School.

Contact: oks-lab@ostkreuzschule.de