Images construct and interpret reality. This image was created in 2015 for volume 3 of the book series Grenzerfahrungen. It shows the alley Fränzel in Eupen as no one has seen it before.
Together, the five workers’ houses in Fränzel have a façade that is about 30 metres long. Between these houses and the houses opposite is an alley only 3 metres wide …
This photograph would not have been possible with a conventional camera and an ordinary lens. For more than three hours, the photographer took countless pictures with a special lens. Each time, only a small section of the houses was photographed from the front.
With the help of a professional image processing programme, all the digital photos were linked together in a complex work process, so that this panoramic image was created, an image that cannot be perceived by passers-by in this way. Only if the houses opposite were demolished and we could take a distance of 20 metres could we actually get this view in real life.