Berlin Women in the Pandemic - AUGENBLICK

The inspiration for AUGENBLICK BERLIN came to me while living in Germany during the pandemic. I started contemplating how our lives as women changed during the pandemic. The way we worked, socialized, and adopted new roles within the family was completely different than before. Some of us were empowered to take new paths, some developed ways of just staying above water, and some were in limbo. I partnered with Kat Tichy, a Berlin songwriter and producer, and AUGENBLICK BERLIN was born. This photography project documents the pandemic lives of 36 Berlin women across different neighborhoods, family compositions, socioeconomic conditions, and age groups. Even though domestic abuse numbers rose at a faster rate during the pandemic, women's shelters around Berlin experienced a decrease in resources and struggled to keep up with the demand for refuge. All of the 36 women featured in the AUGENBLICK BERLIN book donated their time and told their inspiring stories so that the first edition of the book project could support Hestia e.V., a Berlin Frauenhaus (shelter for domestic abuse victims). Profits from the first-edition book sales went toward helping Hestia build a new children’s area in the shelter. AUGENBLICK BERLIN has now been properly published by Trentinaglia Publishers and can be purchased here: https://www.trentinaglia.com/shop