I developed this project after discovering an area of ruined towns in Sicily. They were damaged by a series of earthquakes in 1968 and subsequently abandoned. I felt a strong connection, as if I had been living there and was re-visiting my lost home.

I carry with me an inherent trauma experienced by close family members at the hand of the Nazis. This could well be a case of epigenetic inheritance. Even though this wasn't my own experience, it instilled in me a perpetual feeling of loss.

The book project 'Seismic Shift' incorporates my images as well as a set of negatives found among the debris of the disaster zone.

Some of those discovered images reveal traces of people, others have been transformed into rather intriguing abstract pictures. Nature has scratched and drawn and painted onto them, playing with the represented people, cutting right through their bodies and shrouding them in mist.

My work aims to draw the viewer into a world of discovery, with some uncertain, contradicting, dark, maybe even scary elements. It encourages to feel rather than understand what happens when your world changes to something hardly recognizable. It asks how we can try and cope with it, accepting change and maybe discovering something interesting, something positive, some unexpected beauty.

The book is divided into separate image sections which can be put in context with each other, creating individual sequences and compositions.