In the last year and in the first few months of this year, like everyone else, I go for a lot of walks. I try to find places that are new to me, if possible without many people. I observe my immediate surroundings, downtown Hamburg and the changes in times of lockdown.
These walks keep me happy and give structure to the days.
Strolling and taking photos, which have always been important to me, get a new intensity. What is new for me is the intensive preoccupation with my home and the immediate surroundings. Usually, mostly abroad, I reacted to the differences from home and being a stranger.
My pictures are about the description of places. I show the city and the landscape, plants, architecture, streets and paths. I am always looking for the 'other' in the familiar, in the ephemeral and the changes.


lockdown walks

My pictures are taken in Hamburg, showing streets and streetlife near the river Elbe. Some of the photos are taken in the inner City with the main attraction Elbphilharmony and the harbourfront, some show suburbian life.


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Corona – Diary
Ein Frühling in Hamburg

During the ‚lockdown‘ because of the COVID-19 crisis I started with my diary-project, taking time 
every day to discover my hometown. 
It is on one hand a documentation how the city changed into a silent place.
On the other hand I’m showing what I was doing during this time. 
Beside the documentation of empty streets and places I was taking time to enjoy the coming spring, the blossoms , the light.
In some pictures you can see my imagination, I thing about who’s living in this house?
Who littered the lamp, who draws the lines on the wall, the picture on the pavement?

On my website you can see the diary in chronological order for publication and exhibition projects 
I make combinations of them like a collage.


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Silke Storjohann