LASTING, NOT LASTING

In the small villages of Lower Saxony time froze 1000 years ago. Since then, the wheat grows on the fields, the thatch gets dried while the sun goes up and down again. The generations of farmers run by like the seasons, children are growing up and having children of their own. Where nature is near, death is still a part of life. And in all that romantic circle of life the modern age crawls in, swirling things around while the wheat still grows, and deer gets shot. The local pub which was there for hundreds of years closed because people don't get out as much anymore, so it was turned into a living space. The crops are no longer eaten by humans but by the gigantic biogas plant nearby. A new generation is growing up in this environment captured somewhere between the old and the new. This is a debate of change and time, exemplary of our cyclical history and how we may or may not disrupt it.

This photographic series examines the tension between permanence and change in rural Lower Saxony, where ancient patterns of life persist alongside rapid modernization. Through careful documentation of landscapes, architecture, and local inhabitants, the work creates a visual dialogue between elements that have remained constant for centuries and those that represent recent transformations.

The images capture the paradox of a place where time appears simultaneously frozen and accelerating - where wheat fields that have been cultivated for millennia now feed biogas plants rather than people, and historic gathering places find new purposes as private dwellings. Special attention is given to the youngest generation, who inhabit this liminal space between tradition and innovation, carrying both the weight of history and the uncertainty of the future.