They say, a photographer must go out into the world, while a painter, on the other side, creates his work from within. But the world does not exist exclusively either outside or in.

How can you compare Sibiria with the Mali desert, or the financial metropolis of Frankfurt/M with the tiny village of Sainte Marie-en-Chanois in the 1000 lake area of Franche Comté?

The same holds true for place and time, as evident in the 1996 photograph of the Chechyan man who, during the demonstration… more