In December 2018, I photographed waves crashing against the concrete steps at Dover, during a period of intense political debate surrounding Brexit. In Finstere Zeiten [Dark Times], I combine these images with texts from newspapers, books and personal experience. I am interested in documenting shifts in society’s moral values, changes that are barely noticeable at first but gradually take a society in a different direction.
The title comes from Hannah Arendt’s Men in Dark Times, in which she describes freedom of movement as the oldest and most elementary of liberties. The images focus on the sea, a body of water that is constantly moving. The Channel belongs to no single country and, while it marks a border, it has always been a place of passage.
