traces of human life

village in the far west of germany // 04-2025  

left lower rhine region, germany // 03-2025  

beige-ness / city in lower rhine region, germany // 11-2024  

ARCADE / city of mönchengladbach, germany // 12-2020  

smaller city in the west of germany // 12-2020  

village in the far west of germany // 12-2022  

province of limbourg, the netherlands // 01-2025  

in the far west of germany // 01-2022  

lower rhine area, germany // 02-2024  

in the far west of germany // 09-2024  

fun fair in rural setting – in the far west of germany // 06-2022  

A40 – essen, germany // 08-2024  

ultra rare sighting – mönchengladbach, germany // 12-2013  

ex hard coal mine, coal coke production site – essen, germany // 08-2022  

Places that don’t exist anymore due to the brown coal open cast mine ‚Garzweiler II‘ in the far west of germany. At the time shown here, they were already ghost villages.

1__ village of Borschemich // 11–2014 2__ closed bank* in the village of Immerath // 12–2013

*the information sign at its door reads as follows:

‚Dear Customers, due to the ever-increasing security risk, we will be completely closing our Immerath (old) branch effective January 22, 2012. ATMs and statement printers will continue to be available 24 hours a day at our Borschemich and Holzweiler branches. Thank you for your understanding, Raiffeisenbank Erkelenz’

duisburg, germany // 09-2015