Winter in Germany

In the past 10 years, the number of homeless people in Germany who have died of frostbite has risen by a dramatic 500%*. This is because, in contrast to the assumption that climate change will bring us exclusively warmer winters, the days and nights with hard frost are rising in equal measure. A reality that is becoming the ultimate undoing for more and more homeless people and for which social awareness has not been sufficiently raised. But it is not only the lack of body warmth that is fatal, but equally the too often lack of social warmth and attention from fellow human beings.

For "Winter in Germany," thermal images were taken of places in Düsseldorf where real homeless people are in the open. But the attention is inevitably on the warm passers-by, marked orange/red by the thermal images, who pass by the homeless people. The homeless people, however, due to their own supercooled body temperature, blend in color with the cold, bluish-characterized surroundings. It is not only a visual disappearance that is pointed out but rather the social one: Homeless people are simply overlooked in their life-threatening situation.