Friedhof, 2024 (ongoing)

Friedhof / Cemetery

While hiking in the Italian Alps in 2024, I came across a small cemetery in Piedmont. What moved me were the gravestones bearing small portraits – smiling faces, people shown with loved ones or personal objects, captured in moments full of life. It felt less like a place of mourning and more like a quiet, intimate gallery of human presence. That encounter became the starting point for Cemetery.

Since then, I have been photographing these portraits across cemeteries in Italy, France, and Germany. The images I collect are not just visual records, but fragments of identity – often the last chosen or remembered face of a person. I treat each portrait as part of a growing archive: a reflection of how memory, dignity, and individuality are preserved across cultures and traditions. This ongoing collection is driven by an attention to detail, to materiality, to the quiet ways in which people remain visible – not through grand gestures, but through a photograph, weathered by time and gently embedded in stone.

Cemetery is a collection of photographs, a visual archive, and a quiet gesture of reverence. It is a work about remembrance, about presence, and about the power of images to speak – even beyond the end.