They had spent their entire lives together traveling through Europe in a caravan. In the summer of 2008, Lothar Gärtner decided to venture out on one last trip with his wife, Elke . Two years earlier, Elke was diagnosed with dementia. Lothar wanted to take care of her in his house as long as possible, to accompany her on her way.
Sibylle Fendt initially photographed Lothar and Elke at home before joining the couple on their final journey through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, all the way to Saint Petersburg.
In understated yet intimate photographs, Fendt tells a love story of estrangement, reunion and disappearance. The photographs, although taken on the road, are not travel documents but symbols of a journey into unknown territory.
In photographic projects that often take place over several years, Sibylle Fendt (b. 1974) likes to focus on people who find themselves at a dead end or a fork in the road of their life stories.
Covered hard cover 18x23cm 120 pages English / German Second edition
