This project is a personal take on the theme of immigration, finding a new home and loneliness in a big city. At the same time it's a celebration of a long-lasting Berlin tradition of giving one's stuff away, also known as "Zu verschenken'' (German "To give away for free"). One encounters the following scene quite often: an abandoned sofa or its "smaller companion" right in the middle of the street, evicted from the heavens of someone's home's comfort and brought into the hostile environment of the city. I was hoping to show that, when placed in the urban landscape, a simple everyday object acquires some novel unique connotations and provokes a complex emotional response.
This photo belongs to a series of photos that was being assembled through a couple of years and has inevitably gained some conceptual weight, since I chose one object and aimed at capturing it in its different variations and in all four seasons. An old cheap analog camera was used to make the process of gathering the material more "true" to the subject.
