Everything we build carries an expectation: that someone will use it. Roads assume travellers, lights assume someone in need of seeing, a swing assumes a child. Our surroundings are full of these quiet promises, so self-evident that we only notice them once they are no longer kept.
This series looks at places where that promise has been suspended. The infrastructure keeps its routine, indifferent to whether anyone is there to use it. It is an unsettling thought that the world we made for ourselves does not need us in order to keep running. What remains is not ruin, but readiness – and the open question of why no one answers it.
The photographs were taken mostly in passing – on journeys through Mexico, Taiwan, Colombia, Panama, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Hong Kong, and close to home in northern and eastern Germany.
