Over time

Eleven women, eight men. We know their ages and their names:
Angelique, Emma, Ernst, Harry, etc.

We see their face and see what they looked like some fifty years ago. That's all we know. We don't know where they come from, where they live, what they were, what they have become, what they are. Between then and now lies a life story that we can only guess at. Can we read in the facial features what the portrayed persons have experienced? Are wrinkles and furrows signs of age or scars of painful experiences, traces of stories?
What has life done to these people and what have these people made of their lives? Do their faces, their looks, reveal anything? Is it the same look as forty, fifty years ago? What has changed in the faces and their expressions? In general, how does a person change? How does he age? What do vitality, maturity, youthfulness, age mean? Questions that photographer, filmmaker and lecturer Angelo A. Lüdin asks us with his photo essay. Lüdin has not portrayed any stars. His information about the people is rudimentary. He calls them as they were called in their childhood: by their first names. He reduces his portraits to the essentials and shows faces bust-like, free of clothing or other social indicia. The aged person is in the foreground. And the iconographic comparison to his youth. He is concerned with the before and now and above all: with the in-between.

Beat von Wartburg