The Wall. Fotografische Reise entlang des Atlantikwalls
In the organizer's words:
After the conquest and occupation of large parts of Western Europe by the German Wehrmacht in 1940, Hitler had a chain of bunkers and fortifications built along the entire coastline from Norway to the Spanish border to protect against enemy attacks - the so-called Atlantic Wall. More than 13 million cubic meters of concrete went into the construction of around 17,000 heavily reinforced bunkers, which were flanked by almost 100,000 lighter bunkers. The scale of the facilities built between 1942 and 1944 can only be compared to the Roman Limes and the Great Wall of China. Thousands of forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners lost their lives during the work.
Photographer Annet van der Voort photographed the remains that are still visible today along the coasts of Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the British Channel Islands. She invested more than three years in this elaborate project. Today, most of the bunkers are in a state of decay, but the photo project shows the architectural diversity, the sometimes bizarre embedding in the coastal landscape and the peculiar fascination that the evidence of brutality and destruction still exerts.
The photographer and publicist Annet van der Voort was born in the Netherlands, studied Visual Communication at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts and now lives in North Rhine-Westphalia. Her photo series have been exhibited in numerous national and international museums and galleries and are represented in many collections. Her calm and closely observed color photographs are attempts to approach the central questions about the passing of time.
"My approach is always the same. First there is the searching and finding. Then there is the question of proximity and distance. Aura and mood depend on the available light. In this case, I'm not interested in the pure documentation of the objects, but in how they are embedded in the landscape and nature. Their strangeness, their merging, their modifications and mutations. For in fact it is not only the loss of their function that has changed them, but also time, man and nature." (Annet van der Voort)
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