"Von der Maas bis an die Oder. Brücken"

published by Walther König

pigmentbased inkjet print

signed and numbered in the book

In the summer of 2020, the Cologne-based artist Boris Becker photographed all bridges on a nearly two-month trip with his boat over the inland waterways of Europe from Holland to Poland. The 650 bw motifs are not put into a typological comparison in a traditional sense, but presented in a chronological and topographical sequence in an extensive publication with 1296 pages. Following the concept of a photographic road movie and mostly taken from the middle of the water, the images show a vast variety of bridge structures from the last 150 years. At the same time, despite their diversity, the individual images seem to merge into a single shot due to their visual similarity.