Everything Possible, If Possible

In March 2025, my grandmother and I set off on a four-week journey through Italy. The trip became an exploration of closeness and questions assigned family roles.

For a long time, my grandmother Inge and I encountered each other primarily within the framework of familial roles. Our meetings were ritualized, embedded in routines and structures shaped by family.

It was not until 2023 that we consciously spent time together outside of this framework, when she visited me in Italy for a week. From this experience, an idea emerged: what if we embarked on a longer journey together? Was it merely a beautiful thought, or something truly possible?

The idea stayed with us. After some hesitation and back and forth, we finally set off for four weeks in March 2025. Our destination was Capri, a place Inge had always wanted to see.

During the journey, we had to learn to function together in new ways. Consciously engaging with one another allowed us to rediscover each other. The absence of a familiar environment enabled us to meet as two adults on equal terms. The space we gave ourselves allowed us to truly listen, to playfully shift boundaries and to transform our relationship.

The photographic work reflects this process of negotiation. The shared road trip serves as a metaphor for both an emotional and physical movement toward the unknown. Documentary images merge with staged, symbolically charged motifs and fleeting moments.

I understand photography as an experimental process that enables intimacy and opens up new forms of encounter. It becomes a space of exchange in which relationships can be actively shaped. Within this process, central questions of visibility, role models, and self-determination come to the forefront.

“Everyhing Possible, If Possible” is an invitation to question familiar role models and to rethink relationships. True connection can only emerge through conscious togetherness.

The title “Everything Possible, If Possible” quotes Inge’s response to a question she wrote down ten years ago: What would you like to do with your grandchildren?