ABOUT

Photographer Dirk Alvermann has always been curious about people and their occasionally strange habits. For decades he observed them with his camera and only relied on his perception. In this subjective but unprejudiced way, any place in his photographs became a setting of social interaction at which he only had to point the camera.

This story about the eventful fate of a young dockworker, into which a good portion of our republic's history has gone, is not only told; the reader also sees the visual sequence of events through Anton's eyes. The camera detects what eludes the gaze of the superficial observer. The love story, too, is not an accessory, an arabesque, but is logically integrated into the whole. Image and text grow together into a charming unity.