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In today’s light, these surreal photos of busy metropolises are eerily poignant

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German filmmaker and photographer Franziska Stünkel has built a creative practice around seeing the things people miss.

For more than a decade, she’s wandered through cities in Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States (sometimes walking as far as 15 kilometres — over 9 miles — a day) with her Leica camera, waiting for the perfect combination of colour, faces and texture to reveal itself in the reflection of a window pane.

The first image in Stünkel's series was taken in a restaurant window in Shanghai.
The first image in Stünkel’s series was taken in a restaurant window in Shanghai. Credit: Courtesy Franziska Stünkel

“Reflections surround us every day, and yet we don’t see them,” she said in an email. “I have to concentrate very hard, and observe and feel exactly when the moment of greatest compression is right.”

Falling somewhere between a Photoshopped collage and a surreal dream, each of Stünkel’s photos suggests a narrative, the layered effect insinuating connections that aren’t really there. And though Stünkel has crossed the globe for the series, geographical location seems irrelevant. A photo capturing the colours and faces of a busy shopping street could have been taken anywhere. A woman dragging a suitcase through reflections of busy travellers and fluorescent lights could be a scene from any airport or train station.

As she explores the universality of human experiences, Stünkel chose not to identify locations in the pictures' titles.
As she explores the universality of human experiences, Stünkel chose not to identify locations in the pictures’ titles. Credit: Courtesy Franziska Stünkel

That, largely, is the point. It’s the reason Stünkel doesn’t name or label her photos by date or location. (Instead, they’re simply called “All the Stories” and numbered.)

“My photographs are a symbol of global coexistence. I want to give an idea of the complexity of the world and of being human,” she said. Looking at each one, we’re forced to acknowledge the similarities of our environments, rather than the differences.

One of over 100 pictures in Stünkel's new book, "Coexist."
One of over 100 pictures in Stünkel’s new book, “Coexist.” Credit: Courtesy Franziska Stünkel

Stünkel, who splits her time between the German cities of Hanover and Berlin, began shooting the series in 2009, when she visited Shanghai for its international film festival. While wandering the streets alone, she was struck by how different reflections — of diners, cars, the trees that lined the street — overlapped in the window of a restaurant.

“It showed me that, somehow, everything is connected and that I am never alone,” she said. The image she took there became “All the Stories 01.”

The photos present multiple layers of reflections in a single window pane.
The photos present multiple layers of reflections in a single window pane. Credit: Courtesy Franziska Stünkel

Now, Stünkel has collected 110 of the photos into her new book “Coexist,” released through German publisher Kehrer Verlag. Featuring short academic texts exploring the notion of coexistence in varying contexts — from linguistics to sex robotics — it shows the world through Stünkel’s eyes, interrogating the way we view our relationships with one another.

At a time when the world is facing endless international crises, from the spread of the coronavirus, which has individuals retreating to their homes to isolate, to the ongoing climate and migration crises, Stünkel has been reflecting on the theme more than ever. Watching how people have both separated and come together in recent months, she’s hopeful we’ll learn to act “together in solidarity and with empathy.”

The photographer and filmmaker said the images show how "everything is connected."
The photographer and filmmaker said the images show how “everything is connected.” Credit: Courtesy Franziska Stünkel

“We cannot look at ourselves in isolation… we have responsibility for each other,” she said. “This does not have to be a burden, it can also be a wonderful experience to feel this power of togetherness.”

“Coexist” by Franziska Stünkel, published by Kehrer Verlag, is available now.

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