TITLE: das morgen. (the tomorrow.)

This portrait series documents the youth culture in Frankfurt (Oder), a city in the very east of Germany, about an hour away from Berlin. The city is know for its still very GDR alike look, for its slight right wing movement as well as the atmosphere of a negelcted and slowly decaying place. I shot this series because I was interested in how it was like to grow up, being surrounded by what most people see as wasteland, where drugs and crimes are a daily problem and the chances to get a job that pays well are basically non existing. I was questioning whether it is true that the dream of most of the younger generation is to move to Berlin because Frankfurt does not offer anything for their benefit or if its just prejudices from the outside towards this place.

AUTHOR: Kate Schultze (Germany)

I was born in Görlitz, Saxony, but moved to Berlin in 2000, where I now still live.
I moved to England to do my A-Levels (one of them was photopraphy) in 2014 and then went back to Berlin in 2015 to complete the Abitur.
Straight after that I started to study photography at Lette Verein Berlin, that was 2017, so I'm just in my last year now. My work is mostly of documentary nature, mainly focusing on documenting regions in Europe with nationalist or right wing movements, searching for answers to explain this political change.