WINNERS

Deceptively Overgrown Scars

  • Photographer
    Michael Anker, Germany
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

Winter 1944/45: The final battle of World War II raged on the Seelow Heights. It was the beginning of the assault on the German capital, Berlin. Eighty years after the end of the war, traces of military positions are still visible. Memories inscribed in the landscape. Where it is left to itself, this ancient landscape along the Oder River remembers itself. The scars deceptively overgrow. I photographed this series on Japanese Gampi paper (Washi film) coated with photographic emulsion. The visible plant structures of the semi-transparent paper blend with the graphic structures of the landscape.