East Side Story

East-Side-Story deals with the psychological technique of so-called family constallations in order to create a space for reflecting on migration and its effects across generations.

 

Arrival stories and the topic of making one's home in a new environment are the main focus of the project.

 

The re-enactments of old photographs found in private family albums are shot with a pinhole camera.

A contradiction in terms!

Long exposure times require the persons re-enacting the old photograph to freeze - thus heightening the concentration necessary to take up the positions of their ancestors in the historic image.