Recently my project Dresden 50mmcelebrated its first half finish. With the current update now 62 districts are visited, while 59 divisions of Dresden are still waiting to be inspected.Following the random principle, the patchwork carpet of the city map will further discolour in the following months until the full white and gray of the card face the colors of the photo series.
A trip by train from Zittau back to Dresden in autumn 2018 inspired me to a small photo project whose implementation could be realized in the Easter season 2019.With bike and camera I traveled along the railway lines between Bischofswerda, Zittau and Görlitz.
20 years after the company Deutsche Bahn began to sell more than 2,000 train station buildings and properties in Germany on a large scale, because they were considered unprofitable, the effects are now clearly visible.While larger towns have been willing and able to maintain and modernize their stations, many others, either in the hands of speculators or regrettably failed private enthusiasts, are decaying.
What makes the sometimes difficult bearable state of the buildings with people who use stations like Putzkau or Neusalza-Spremberg daily on the work or school route?
Putzkau, HaltepunktBahnhof Neusalza-Spremberg
In some places, humor was proved and the unused and fenced building was provided with train-specific caricatures.
Bahnhof Taubenheim (Spree)
Often the power is enough only for a sarcastic comment.
Dresden is structured along with the numerous incorporations in the countryside in 122 local and city districts. So far, 47 of these districts were visited and the impressions recorded in short photographic sequences.
The most recent addition to the project Dresden 50mm – launched in 2015 – comprises six districts:
Buehlau
Grossluga
Kaditz
Kleinluga
Laubegast
Strehlen
All resulting photo series are published on the project page.
