In the summer of 2014 I volunteered at refugee camps in Karlsruhe. Quickly I became a little unsatisfied about the way things worked there, I had a different idea of the encounter with the refugees, one more cheerful. I spent a lot of my days outside, particularly in one forest which happened to be close to one of the refugee camps. I wanted to show the people, who spend a lot of their time bored and within the little enjoyable vicinities of their tiny and crowded apartments, where they can spend their time instead.
I went to the asylums and took with me whoever wanted to come, between 10 and 50 people, we went on a tram to the forest and the journey there itself became a whole perculiar thing. We had a picknick amongst the trees and Karlsruhe families on their weekend trips and then I made portraits of those interested.
Later on, I organised all the slides in one slide circus, put up the projector at the same spot where the photos had been taken and then invited my professors, fellow students and other „art spectators“ for a little trip to the midnight forest where the images where running through rapidly.
