The Zone - A Jewel of Human Culture
In every German city there is a place where you can feel at home: The Zone. It is our today`s human culture. The shopping zone is both home and contemplation.
These paths of the contemporary search for salvation are mostly found in the immediate vicinity of the old cathedrals and churches. The flow of the crowd flows along the open portals, which invite to salvation.
If the thesis of the media scientist Norbert Bolz is correct that consumption as a substitute religion protects a society from fanaticism, the masses in the pedestrian zones are probably moving along a peaceful path of coexistence.
A documentary view of the canals of today's search for salvation. The photographs were taken in Cologne between 2007 and 2008.
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Archival Pigment Print, 33 x 46 cm,sig., num., st., 2008
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