What (still) holds our present together? Over the course of a year, eleven photographers turned their cameras on their own surroundings and on society. What emerged are widely different photographic essays, some documentary, some more artistic in approach. Their subjects range from migration and belonging to our relationship with nature, from social insecurity to family and social change.

The exhibition “Blick ins Land” marks the conclusion of a seminar at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, led by Ingmar Björn Nolting.

On show are photographs by Alina Rapoport, Andre Schönherr, Astrid Caridad Scheuermann, Britta Brugger, Leonie Pock, Lucia Götz, Lynn Koesling, Marc Emmerich, Markus Born, Natalia Bronny, and Rory Grubb.

Alina Rapoport | Arriving

More than four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Berlin has become home to many Ukrainian refugees. Most have found housing, some even work — but is that enough to truly belong? Born in Kyiv and raised in Germany, Alina Rapoport explores this question by following three Ukrainian women with her camera over the course of nearly a year.

Andre Schönherr | What remains

Andre Schönherr’s work is a visual exploration of the evident, and often contradictory, transformation of the Alpine landscape. Shaped by climate change, human intervention, and the increasing impact of tourism, this landscape is undergoing rapid change. The photographs emerge from careful observation and invite viewers to pause and look more closely. They create space for reflection on our relationship with nature, while raising questions about responsibility, balance, and the future.

Website: www.andreschoenherr.com | Instagram: @andreschoenherr

Astrid Caridad Scheuermann | Rosa de los Vientos / Windrose

This photographic essay explores migration, cultural memory, and belonging through the Panamanian folklore group in Berlin, of which Astrid Caridad Scheuermann has been a founding member since 2018. Across documentary, portrait, and poetic images, the project traces how traditions travel, transform, and create new forms of identity between Panama and Germany, revealing home as something continuously renegotiated rather than fixed.

Website: astridscheuermann.com | Instagram: @astridcaridadscheuermann

Britta Brugger | Nothing is certain.

Sometimes, a few months are all it takes for one’s life to fall apart. Job loss, eviction, a prolonged illness or the loss of a loved one: poverty can strike almost any of us. At the same time, recipients of basic social security benefits are often subject to discrimination and hostility. With her photography project, she wanted to discover the lives affected by these prejudices; what she found were five women and their stories.

Website: brittabrugger.de | @britta_36

Leonie Pock | Hausberg

A Hausberg is the mountain closest to a town. It shapes the view from the window and provides a sense of direction. Having grown up in the Upper Valais, the mountains were long something eternal and unchanging to Leonie Pock. Extreme events in recent years — floods, landslides, and shrinking glaciers — have shaken that sense of permanence. What’s happening right on her doorstep? How do others cope with this uncertainty? Hausberg seeks answers and meets people whose lives are connected to the Alps in many different ways.

Website: leoniepock.ch

Lucia Götz | Käsekuchen

My grandparents live only eight minutes apart, and yet, also in their everyday life, it feels like a leap from a small town to a village. When I return to the place I grew up in, I feel torn between a world that seems strangely unfamiliar to me and a sense of comfort and intimacy. During my work, my gaze has now been lingering on things I used to walk past and take for granted. In retrospect, I was confronted with the influences that shaped me, which take on a different clarity with temporal distance and when captured in images.

@luciagoetzzz

Lynn Koesling | Kraft

Energy. Electricity. Always. Everywhere. At. Any. Time. For decades, coal-fired power stood for security of supply and growth. Today, the industry is confronted with changing political frameworks, and is often held solely responsible for energy and climate policy problems. But the origin of this problem is elsewhere. A purpose that remains unquestioned: A discrepancy between unchecked energy consumption and the climate crisis fueled by the corresponding production of energy.

lynn.koesling@gmail.com

Marc Emmerich | Keine Zeit für Monster

When the Wall fell, Marc Emmerich was four years old. Too young to consciously experience the fall of the Wall, but old enough to feel its effects. His kindergarten got a new playground, the kiosk by his front door started selling Mickey Mouse comics, and suddenly the weekly shopping trip was to a gigantic shopping center. None of it struck him as strange. The old had simply disappeared; the new was suddenly there. In today’s shop windows, he traces the estrangement that stayed hidden from him as a child.

Markus Born | heim

While working on “heim”, Markus Born lives out of his car. Moving through Germany, he turns his camera to everyday and historic places, like cities, nature, industry, memorials, and to events, from local rituals to public assemblies. With “heim” he traces and marks his orientation in the country: its history and the social and political shifts of the present. He researches his motifs closely. His unstaged shots combine a documentary approach with a drive towards form, in which precise composition and chance go hand in hand.

Website: markusborn.com | Instagram: @markusborn.photo

Natalia Bronny | Wintar

Dwindling supplies, snow-covered roadways, a frozen home: The German winter was once a brutal struggle for survival. Even though it is less of a threat today, many of us still look with fear upon the cold season — and its silence, darkness, loneliness: To this day, winter is the season in which most people die. Natalia Bronny shows how tradition-conscious communities between Sylt and Rupertiwinkel stand up to the demons of winter — and have been shaking things up for centuries.

Website: nataliabronny.com | Instagram: @nataliabronny

Rory Grubb | In The Delta

The Spreewald: marshland, trees, seeping waters, a quiet life. No drama. This region of Brandenburg reminds Rory Grubb of where he grew up in Ireland. For almost a year he has returned again and again with his bicycle, zigzagging through this inland delta of stillness, often without a fixed route. On the way he has encountered people and stories, openness and a proud connection to the land.

Website: rorygrubbphotography.com | Instagram: @rorygrubb_

Thursday, Sep 3, 2026, 7 pm
Opening Reception

Sat, Sep 5, 2026, 4 pm
Guided Tour (de)

Sunday, Sep 6, 2026, 4 pm
Finissage