TITLE: The Napalm Girl

Kim Phuc, known as the "Napalm Girl" and now a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, stands behind a window reflecting photographer Nick Ùt. Everyone knows the famous photo he took in Vietnam 50 years ago. Since then, this moment has connected both their lives and has had a lasting influence on them

The photo is from the series "Time Travelers".
I asked each of the portrayed people: "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 me.

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