The city of Jerusalem has been the focal point of the Middle East conflict for decades. It is particularly in the occupied territory of East Jerusalem and the surrounding West Bank that the humanitarian consequences of this conflict become most apparent. Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers live there, side-by-side in one metropolitan area, in hostile neighbourhood, separated by walls and fences, and under very different living conditions and prospects.
The documentary style photographs in this book explore these urban landscapes and provide a view of the deep marks and scars that the Middle East conflict has left in this area over the decades.
Published by Kerber Verlag in July 2016
ISBN 978-3-7356-0252-7
30 x 20 cm
128 pages
87 colored illustrations
Hardcover with clothbound
Language: English
38.00 €
Im Münchner Stadtteil Schwabing an der Leopoldstraße, etwas versteckt hinter der Mensa der Universität liegt der Leopoldpark, ein Stück Natur mit uralten Bäumen und stillen Ecken, manchmal traumhaft schön. Er ist eigentlich gar nichts Besonderes, ist auch recht klein, wird aber von vielen innig geliebt und intensiv für alles Mögliche genutzt. Das geht nicht spurlos an ihm vorüber. Er ist auch gezeichnet von der tristen Infrastruktur des urbanen Lebens, wie sie eben zu einer Grünanlage mitten in der Stadt dazu gehört.
Es ist diese Spannung zwischen dem Bewahren und dem Benutzen der Natur, zwischen Traum und Tristesse, die in diesem Buch fotografisch erkundet wird. Es wird außerdem die lange und wechselvolle Geschichte dieses kleinen Parks erzählt, wie alles angefangen hat vor über einhundertsiebzig Jahren und warum es an ein Wunder grenzt, dass es ihn heute überhaupt noch gibt. Da ging es um Erhalten oder Erneuern, gab es Glanz und Elend – ein bewegtes und bewegendes Stück Münchner Stadtgeschichte im Kleinen.
Published by Allitera Verlag in September 2017
ISBN 978-3-86906-987-6
24 x 26 cm
144 pages
74 colored illustrations
Hardcover
Language: German
29.90 €
A beer tent at the Oktoberfest is more than just a place where Bavarian beer is served and a brass band plays. Here every day anew an extraordinary social space arises where people of different backgrounds come together and find one another, and at least for the moment, any sense of alienness and all social differences disappear.
The photographs in this book are portraying this unique crowd and capture in pictures what is almost impossible to describe in words.
The American writer Thomas Wolfe has nevertheless put his experiences into words in an impressive way. In his short story ‘Oktoberfest’ of 1928, he also portrays what for him was an absolutely exotic behaviour at the world’s largest beer festival, which both attracted and repelled him and whose fascination he himself found impossible to resist.
Published by Allitera Verlag in August 2018
ISBN 978-3-96233-045-3
25 x 20 cm
104 pages
24 colored illustrations
Hardcover
Language: English and German
29.90 €
Defying traditional portraiture, this series of photographs encapsulates the rich, varied, eclectic and diverse population of London as seen in the democratising space of a carriage on the London Underground. By omitting the face, these portraits allow us an undistracted and genuine perusal of these passengers and the stories which their visual appearances are telling. It also challenges our ability to see, recognise and understand these stories. It is a gentle yet pervasive look at the great sea of humanity travelling in subterranean London and the rich diversity in this contemporary metropolis.
Introduction by Zelda Cheatle
Published by Kerber Verlag in October 2019
ISBN 978-3-7356-0633-4
17 x 20 cm
96 pages
45 colored illustrations
Hardcover
Language: English
22.00 €
Arcadia – a utopian land where man lives in harmony with nature, where war, worry and disease are absent, where tranquility, solidarity and happiness are everlasting – has a long tradition stretching back to antiquity. Originally a remote landscape in the Peloponnese, said within ancient Greek mythology to be inhabited by the gods and spirits of nature, this earthly paradise was transformed into an imaginary idyll by the Roman poet Virgil in his pastoral poems, and has lived on in Western art, intellectual history, and the imagination ever since.
In the years 2020 and 2021, l spent many days wandering along my nearby river in search of peace of mind, amongst many others who were seeking the same at the time. I looked for Arcadia, simply on my own doorstep, and I found it there.
Published by Kerber Verlag in August 2022
ISBN 978-3-7356-0869-7
21 x 25 cm
112 pages
67 colored illustrations
Hardcover
Language: English
30.00 €
Der Hinterhof ist ein außergewöhnlicher sozialer Raum, dessen Erscheinungsbild bei näherem Hinsehen viel erzählt über die Menschen, die sich darin bewegen. Anders als die meisten urbanen Räume wurde er oft nicht bewusst als Lebensraum geschaffen und gestaltet, sondern war zunächst einfach ein zwischen den umliegenden Gebäuden übrig gebliebener Leerraum. Die Anwohner nutzen ihn dann aber quasi als Freiraum, ordnen ihm unterschiedliche Bedeutungen und Funktionen zu und richten sich darin ein. Dieser Aneignungs- und Gestaltungsprozess verläuft oft weniger geplant und zielgerichtet, sondern eher spontan und intuitiv. Gerade deshalb verrät er einiges über die unbewussten Haltungen und Bedürfnisse der Menschen, die diesen Raum nutzen.
Ich schaue auf die nur vordergründig banale und belanglose Realität dieser urbanen Sujets, sehe sie aber davon losgelöst als unbewusst arrangierte Stillleben in ihrer doppelbödigen, surrealen und poetischen Dimension.
Published by Kerber Verlag in November 2023
ISBN 978-3-7356-0961-8
20 x 27 cm
84 pages
48 colored illustrations
Hardcover
Language: German
32.00 €
In What I See, I present a diverse collection of photographic works made over the course of ten years, weaving together an eclectic range of projects to further understand my own experiences and perspective as a photographer, and more generally to reflect upon what it means to be a photographer today. I have spent more than twenty years as an insurance executive before seriously embracing my true passion and embarking on an artistic career in photography. Throughout my decade-long intensive exploration of the medium, I have learnt to abandon the rational and structural thinking that I had cultivated to succeed within the corporate world, and instead to invite emotion, instinct, mystery, curiosity, reflection, and uncertainty into my creative work. Themes such as youth, memory, beauty, nature, the human environment and how our lives play out within it, all surface here – posed as questions rather than solutions. I am not trying to provide any answers or sense of certainty. In fact, this book doesn’t even answer many of the questions that I have about myself. But it does provide a sense of what kind of animal this photographer is.
Published by Kerber Verlag in May 2025
ISBN 978-3-7356-1036-2
20 x 27 cm
160 pages
104 colored illustrations
Hardcover
Language: English
36.00 €