Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, ask of the roses if they love the rain, ask of the little lark, that will not sing till day break, if it loves to see the day.
Author: Pejman Birounvand
RACHTEN is a series of seven medium-format photo portraits shot by Natalie Rose Dodd and styled by Jules Rumpf, bringing together traditional German attire with fetish accessories best known from Berlin’s unique nightlife.
Neon dead, the holograms inert, waiting under the poisoned silver sky.
Make a choice of where you belong and stand tall, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the light and don’t look back.
“I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo, she could fade and wither – I didn’t care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.”
We arrive here as we are in reality, and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us – that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in silence.
I never felt lonely… neither when I was alone or not. But I would have liked to be alone at last. Loneliness means I’m finally whole. Now I can say it… like tonight, I’m at last alone.
Oh, sweet youth – one day everything is going to be alright. One day – you will be allowed to follow your instinct & act out of your parent’s expectations, one day you will be able to dance in a big crowd of people till the sun rises up.
Let this new year start with your life symbolising a stage for you to shine and glow everything surrounding you. It’s your show and the stage is yours.
I had a dream. In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was a world, and it was dark because there weren’t lightened by robins that represent a world of love