Autobahn Diary
2014
PHOTOGRAPHY
Most of the European lorry drivers stay "on the road" an average of about 60 hours a week. Some of them, especially drivers from Eastern European countries, are working under extreme time pressure for more than 12 hours a day without stopping.
Whilst driving across the EU for weeks, they do not have the chance to be home for the weekends. This is why their lorries have become their small homes where they have to work and live away for many weeks in a row.
The project is the outcome of my many weeks of bus travel on Germany's longest motorways. Always travelling in the last row by the window, I had the unique opportunity to capture the drivers and their cabs while the bus was overtaking a truck. The moment to take a picture was so short that only 1 in 10 pictures was sharp and well exposed.
Autobahn Diary is a portrait of life
- “my small glimpse into private homes" -
of lorry drivers from all over Europe.
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