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"'Papa, Gerd and the Northman' by Ostkreuz photographer Espen EICHHÖFER is his first book of photographs. In the photographs, which were taken between 2009 and 2019, he explores central questions about his origins: Where do I come from? Where am I at home? What is home? Born in eastern Norway to a Norwegian mother and German father, the photographer spent his childhood and youth in the Ruhr region and now lives and works in Berlin.
Beyond the very personal questions, this book also poses generally valid questions in connection with home, identity, origin, national pride, especially against the background of the current political discussions in Germany and Europe.
Content
The pictures in the photo book 'Papa, Gerd und der Nordmann' by Espen EICHHÖFER were taken in his Norwegian 'homeland', which he knows from regular vacation trips, first as a child, later also with his own family. His own relatives, friends and more distant acquaintances are the protagonists, the dark winter months, the endless brightness of summer, the houses and the vast landscape of eastern Norway the background of his pictures, which interpret the Norwegian and the German parts of his ancestry, from documentary to surreal to romantic moods." (© Hartmann Projects, 2021)