Vergeßt mir die Liebe nicht!

An essay about love from Alexander von Wiedenbeck

 

The kiss is gone, but love stays. A beautiful quote from the five-year-old Jette, after the evening ritual of the good night kiss from her mother. This quote could not be more appropriate for me today. But I’m not talking about love for a mother or a child. Rather, it is about the one, true and heartfelt love; those who can inspire us beyond the sky and at the same time tear us into a deep abyss. Is it possible to show such strong feelings and emotions and this schizophrenic interplay of exhilaration and deep abyss pictorially through photography – is that even possible? I say yes. Emotions can be made visible, even a strong and inexplicable feeling like love. Like ones said so beautifully: “A picture is worth a thousand words”… but a thousand words can also tell a lot.