Stephanie Kiwitt: Fortlaufend

Fortlaufend (Ongoing) is the second book in Stephanie Kiwitt’s large-scale project devoted to rural areas in Saxony-Anhalt. It presents black-and-white photos of parts of building façades, whose materiality and structure give them a sculptural feel. Kiwitt documents changes to the architecture: bricked-up doors and windows, areas that have been knocked down and replaced with new sections. She turns the different surfaces into compositions, relating them to one another. Though they are instrumental in designing the environment in which they live, there are no humans to be seen in her pictures, yet it is their very absence that asserts their presence. The book—a continuation of Flächenland—contains eighty-six photographs that Kiwitt took in cities, towns, and villages in Saxony-Anhalt between 2021 and 2024.

In the accompanying booklet, Jonathan Everts and Daniel Herrmann draw on Kiwitt’s photographic work as a means to reflect on urban agglomerations and rural areas in Saxony-Anhalt, both now and in the future.

Stephanie Kiwitt is a photographer and Professor of Communication Design / Photography at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Arts and Design Halle. Jonathan Everts is Professor of Human Geography at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Daniel Herrmann is artistic director of the media art association Werkleitz Gesellschaft e. V.