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‘Before the pandemic, one in ten German teenagers showed symptoms of depression. At the end ofthe first lockdown, it was one in four. Many of my friends had trouble reconnecting with their social lives after the lockdown and I was no different.I have yet to go back to university. The message I wrote to my parents at the beginning of the pandemic was preserved in a picture frame as a document of time. For months, it sat in a moving box in my new flat share. It took some time until I could unpack.’ -Valentin Goppel
Le titre du livre Zwischen den Jahren décrit la période entre Noël et le Nouvel An, la période entre les années. Il agit comme une métaphore pour expliquer la période de transition entre l’enfant et l’âge adulte, en plus du sentiment de temps suspendu ou de paralysie entre avant la pandémie de Covid et un avenir inconnu.
À la veille du Nouvel An en 2020, Valentin Goppel a commencé à photographier ses amis et connaissances dans une tentative de traiter et de représenter la désorientation qu’il ressentait pendant la période de Covid. En prenant des photos de ses amis, il a trouvé un moyen de faire face à l’état d’incertitude. Ce n’était pas difficile pour lui de leur expliquer les photos qu’il cherchait — elles étaient toutes au milieu de la même situation et se sentaient liées dans un état d’incertitude.
The book’s title Zwischen den Jahren, describes the time between Christmas and New Year—the time between years. It acts as a metaphor to explain the period of transition between child and adulthood, in addition to the sense of suspended time or paralysis between before the Covid pandemic and an unknown future.
On New Years Eve in 2020, Valentin Goppel began to photograph his friends and acquaintances in an attempt to both process and represent the disorientation he felt during the time of Covid. Through taking pictures of his friends he found a way to deal with the state of uncertainty. It wasn’t difficult for him to explain to them the pictures he was looking for—they were all in the middle of the same situation and felt connected in a state of limbo.
