Ausstellungsbeschreibung 

The Vernissage will start on October 1st, at 20:00 and will last until 23:30. There will be live music as well as finger-food.

Benjamin Hiller (28, Photographer & Journalist) traveled with his sister from April to June for six weeks through the southwest of the USA, passing through Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. During this trip he tried to capture the essence of the American way of life and landscape, both deeply intertwined with each other. The main focus was on space (aka landscape) and the signs the human beings have left behind.

Only if you travel extensively and also outside the big cities you can recognize all the different influences which have led to the American society. The feeling of the vast open space, the fight for the freedom of the individual as well as the struggle to keep the country going is found here, in the rural areas. Let it be white trash, Mexican immigrants or the middle class - all are experienced and apprehended in an other form here than in the East-Coast or in Washington.