The photographer returned to spend a summer in the hometown of her childhood Damme in southern
Lower Saxony. Damme is surrounded by an agricultural landscape of industrial monoculture. At
the time of the photographs the fields were full of maize. Heidi Specker took portraits of
pupils at the high school and positioned these figures and faces alongside brick architecture
with bunting and brass musical instruments subtly evoking rituals to form a visual essay of
70 photographs. The theme of human and animal is biographically and historically reasoned and
updated in text and image through a personal commentary from the photographer. The book deals
with our own biography which has become increasingly problematic these days in terms of
animal husbandry particularly in this region and global climate change.
