I moved to New York City in early 2020 on the occasion of an internship – only to have my stay cut short by the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. After having my work-visa revoked, I had no other possibility but to move back to Germany. "Crown Heights" documents the last days in our Brooklyn neighborhood in march 2020. Without the subject of the pandemic being directly discussed, the collages – void of people and captured from tourist perspective – still revoke an eerie, almost foreign atmosphere.
2020