• Andrea Diefenbach Land ohne Eltern
  • Andrea Diefenbach Land ohne Eltern
  • Andrea Diefenbach Land ohne Eltern
  • Andrea Diefenbach Land ohne Eltern
  • Andrea Diefenbach Land ohne Eltern
  • Andrea Diefenbach Land ohne Eltern

Andrea Diefenbach Land ohne Eltern

Andrea Diefenbach describes in her series Land ohne Eltern (Country without Parents) the life choices faced by migrant workers from the Republic of Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Europe. In her photographs, the distance between the two utterly different worlds of the children left at home and the parents working in far-off lands becomes almost painfully tangible. "In April 2008, I was standing in a first-grade classroom in a small village in the southeast of the Republic of Moldova when the teacher asked, ›Whose parents live in Italy?‹. Around two-thirds of the children raised their hands, displaying a mixture of pride and embarrassment. I was shocked. It's one thing to read all the statistics on migrant workers and their remittances for relatives back home, but it's another matter to stand in a cold classroom before 30 six-year-olds in wool caps and to realize that some of them haven't seen their parents in years..." Andrea Diefenbach (*1974) has been working since her studies at the FH Bielefeld as a freelance photographer, including for the SZ Magazin, Brand Eins, Stern, Die Zeit and Du. Land ohne Eltern, awarded with the Wüstenrot Prize for Documentary Photography, is her second book, following SPID. Aids in Odessa (2008).


Hardcover 23 x 20 cm 124 pages 73 color illustrations English, German Out of print ISBN 978-3-86828-337-2 2012

Texts:

Nicola Abé, Dumitru Crudu, Grigore Vieru

Awards

Winner ABISAG-TÜLLMANN-PREIS 2013

Exhibitions

Münchner Stadtmuseum
14.06 – 21.07.2013

Schaufenster Stadtmuseum, Wiesbaden
12.04. – 11.05.2013

Heussenstamm-Galerie, Frankfurt/Main
25.02. – 04.04.2014

Goethe Institut, San Francisco
Spring 2016

Blue Sky Gallery, Portland
June 2016

Galerie Kloster Obermarchtal
Fall 2016 – 2017

Book Signings

Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
04.05.2013

vfg Bildersoirée, Zürich
27.08.13, 19 Uhr

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