Falsche Bewegung: A Suspended Riviera

Falsche Bewegung is a long-term project reimagining the Romagna Riviera beyond its seasonal identity. As crowds fade, the coast enters a liminal state where time slows and landscapes—beaches, pines, structures—become silent, minimal presences that suggest

The project originated from a reflection on the “winter sea”, not as a nostalgic motif, but as a visual and conceptual condition.

Its deeper impulse can be traced back to the cinematic atmosphere of The State of Things by Wim Wenders, where suspension and incompleteness become central themes. This influence translates into a photographic approach that embraces uncertainty, where the image exists as possibility rather than resolution.

Working along the coast of Ravenna, the project unfolds through fragments: fishing huts, empty beaches, dense pine forests. These elements form a reduced visual vocabulary, shaped by subtraction and quiet transformation.

Through long exposures and subtle camera movement—echoing the logic of ICM (Intentional Camera Movement)—the images dissolve clarity to evoke atmosphere, creating a sense of distance, solitude, and quiet tension.

Falsche Bewegung becomes a meditation on waiting and transition, where the winter landscape reflects an inner condition of suspension. Like an unfinished dialogue between cinema and photography, the project inhabits a space between presence and absence, documenting not a place, but a state of being.