Independently pictures and writing chronicle - in deliberately different keys - my reactions to those things or happenings which seem to illuminate or indicate the gap between my (our) cultural assumptions and German realities.
Although the pictures shown here were largely taken in Neümunster in 1985, both they and the work as a whole grew out of my experiences over a number of years since 1972. In 1985 I returned and photographed many scenes I had previously visited - and often photographed previously - though usually with different intentions and results. The colour images were deliberately printed on an outmoded Agfa material that give a more aged feel to the tones.
This work was first shown as a part of a Framework group exhibition in Reading, England in 1986. I cannot at the moment locate the colour originals for several pictures, which appear in black and white only, and one picture is missing completely (another is re-used in its place.) I hope to remedy these defects shortly.