The project has been developed by the sociologist Licia Soldavini and the photographer and political scientist Daniel Seiffert, as part of their final works. It has been supported by the city-development office LÜBBENAUBRÜCKE and the Youth Office Oberspreewald Lausitz.
The project aims at making the daily lifes of young people grown up in the city visible through their own eyes: the participants were invited to tell about their living conditions and perspectives in a city that severly shrinks since the Berlin Wall fell. The teenagers are all born after 1989 and raised in Lübbenau. Thus they are representative of the first Post-socialist generation.
It is also a generation communicating mostly with images, that is why we asked them to represent their thoughts through disposable cameras. This type of machine sounds a little bit nostalgic, and some of the youngsters would have much more preferred to use their own super-technological divices. We went for them because they had a limited number of picture and a standardized quality. And we think the kids did very well in the end!
