Billerberg

When my grandfather died, I also lost a piece of home. The series Billerberg is a personal photographic confrontation with grief, loss and insecurities. The poetic-artistic photographs were taken shortly before his house was handed over to its new owners. Many things had already been thrown out, a few things stored, but in many ways it was exactly as he had left it. For the pictures I tried to immerge into the house, to experience it the way my grandfather did all these years. To do so, I spent a few weeks alone in the large and quiet rooms. The resulting self-portraits as well as the staged photographs I took of my parents might seem a bit disturbing at first, and they definetely play with absurdity. But more importantly, they deal with hard decisions, with farewells and memories.