Der Teich

(the pound)

Achim, Oppi and the pound, is a single piece book fully made with b/w darkroom prints, each one as a single piece, glued to each other and bound by Berlin bounder J. Christodulow.
The pound located in Kaulsdorf, Berlin used to be build in the former GDR in 1987 for their upcoming national gardening show.
While the "gardens of the world" nearby the pond got finished, the embedding of the pound itself never got realized under the circumstances of the system transformation. As it was planned to be a local swimming pond for the people living in the socialist blocks (Plattenbauten) it never got finished for this use. After it has been for itself for about a decade, in the late 90ies enviroment protection groups took over for the rehabillitation of the nature around it.
Even if it is not realy sure if legal or not, it is now in regular use of the local Kleingarten (gardening houses) and locals around it as a fishing pound.

My main Characters, Achim and Oppi, are two old friends spending almost every day in summer at this lake, always on the hunt for the next pike. People who´d never talk to each other in the streets, meet here and discuss their amateur fishing skills with each other. So far this place didn´t evolve just as an ecological biotop as it is a social one either.
24 photographs, 20 pages, pe-paper, edition 1