2019 | Folds
Photographic project, ongoing, since 2012 | variable formats
Life on the street usually is not consciously chosen, but the result of changed global economies and refugee flows. Structures that become ever more exclusive and work that is not providing a living anymore. – Not travelers of their own free will, but actually displaced people.
Tramps, Clochards, homeless have been romanticized many times, as they have the apparent freedom to go where they want to, not involved in the constraints of daily routine – travelers to the unknown in the actual meaning. At the same time also reminder and specter of the meritocracy.
Life on the street usually is not consciously chosen, but the result of changed global economies and refugee flows. Structures that become ever more exclusive and work that is not providing a living anymore. – Not travelers of their own free will, but actually displaced people.
Since a trip to Tokyo in 2012 I document the homes of homeless, where I encounter them in everyday life and while traveling. The semi residential structures document the aim and need to create even in so-called precarious circumstances, a space of protection and privacy.
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- „Folds“, Marseille (F) #36, 2013 | image: ©sibylle_feucht
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- „Folds“, New York (USA) #15, 2012 | image: ©sibylle_feucht
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- „Folds“, Montevideo (Uriguay) #99, 2015 | image: ©sibylle_feucht
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- „Folds“, Athens (GR) #39, 2016 | image: ©sibylle_feucht
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- „Folds“, Tokyo (JP) #100, 2012 | image: ©sibylle_feucht
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- „Folds“, Athens (GR) #63, Dyptichon Piraeus Bank, 2016 | image: ©sibylle_feucht
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- „Folds“, Athens (GR) #62, Dyptichon Piraeus Bank, 2016 | image: ©sibylle_feucht
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- „Folds“, Venice (IT) #98, 2013 | image: ©sibylle_feucht
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- „Folds“, Art Museum Bonn (GER) #77, 2013 | image: ©sibylle_feucht
