Leaving Kassel for Berlin was mostly a driving day. Long roads, flat fields, ordinary service stops. But ordinary routes often produce the most human images.
At one stop, conversation led to a portrait opportunity. Later in Berlin, life intensified: river atmosphere, movement, noise, reunions, stories. A city day after road silence can be overwhelming, but it sharpens the eye.
For portrait work during transit, my method is simple: shoot fast, keep setup minimal, respect the moment. ICM is not always part of the portrait frame itself, but it informs how I think about emotion over detail. I am less interested in perfect skin texture than in whether the image carries the person’s energy.
From Berlin the route to the Polish coast got rougher, roads got worse, and the journey felt physically demanding again. This contrast between urban pulse and rural friction generated a useful tension for the series.
In hindsight, those two days became a bridge in the project: from biography to landscape language.
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