TITLE: Time Travelers

This project is about discussing and reflecting on life-changing moments in the lives of the individual protagonists. The question for the time travelers is: "Which place/ event was directional/ incisive or is very significant in your past/ for your present?" These places/people or corresponding objects are reflected in a window behind which the time traveler is portrayed by the photographer. The respective window allows the time traveler to look into the distance - and at the same time a bit inward. A view or also insight into the respective emotional world may be granted here. The circumstances, which are reflected in the disc, can only be grasped by a closer look and a more detailed examination. This allows the viewer to discover another facet of the time traveler. The project has been in existence since 2015 and will be now being published for the first time.

AUTHOR: Petra Gerwers (Germany)

"Already at the age of 9 Petra had her first camera and since then she has felt that the medium of photography can offer her something quite extraordinary: a direct dialogue with the world around her without having to subordinate what she sees to a conceptual logic. Trusting in an intuitive perception, she develops a very personal, subjective visual language in various photographic projects. Photography also played an important role for Petra Gerwers in her previous work as a specialist teacher for mentally and physically handicapped children. For her, this medium is the best way to go satisfy her passion to connect with people and bring them together with other people. Communication forms the central motif of what she does, and this is also the basis for her photography project "Time Travelers," in which she gives people a platform, a voice and visibility. What is essential about her portrait photography is that she does not want to create a clear image of her protagonists. In photographic images with multi-layered reflections, people are freed from a static representation of their personality and allow a glimpse behind the facade." Text: Wolfgang Zurborn