Central Saxony – Lights and Shadows Central Saxony, in the sense of this small photographic field trip, is wider than the Saxon district of the same name. A region was roamed, which is bordered by the Elbe river between Dresden and Torgau in the east and between Chemnitz and Leipzig in the west. At the center of my observations were small and medium-sized towns, whose names are not unknown from signposts along the A4 and A14 motorways or as railway stations, but so far have mostly been blind spots on my visual map. Most of these cities and towns have in common an almost perfectly refurbished center – at least the marketplace,
Dresden in spring 2020 Dresden, spring 2020, impressions of the exit restriction during the COVID-19 pandemic
Flying visit in the “Pott” About 1000 kilometers lie between the Upper Silesian and the Rhine-Westphalian industrial area. In the past few years, I have covered the 500km in eastern direction several times to realize the photo project Górny Śląsk. In 2019, I headed west to visit an industrial region with a similar history for the first time. Both regions were and are dominated by the mining industry, whose decline and the associated transformation processes in the Ruhr area began at the end of the 1950s, while in Upper Silesia the change began with the fall of the Iron Curtain and with the accession of Poland to the
