SPECKER, Heidi - Damme

"The photographer Heidi SPECKER returned to her childhood place for a summer: the small town in southern Lower Saxony is surrounded by an industrial, monocultural agricultural landscape. At the time of the pictures, these were corn fields.

Heidi SPECKER portrayed pupils at the high school and positioned these figures and faces with brick architecture, with pennants and tinny musical instruments, which are subtly reminiscent of rituals, in an image essay from 70 photographs.

A personal commentary by the photographer substantiates and updates the topic of humans and animals biographically and historically in text and images. The book is an examination of one's own biography, which has become increasingly problematic in fattening livestock farming, particularly in this region and in the face of climate change worldwide " (Slightly adapted publisher's note, © Walther Koenig, 2020)