The Awful German Language

The Awful German LanguageIn 2011 the American photographer Jeffrey Ladd moved to Cologne, Germany, and began photographing his surroundings while learning the basics of the German language. In the process, he collected lists of interesting German vocabulary words (professions, places, things, common terms, and the outdated), which he juxtaposes with his black and white photographs; two different types of languageone visual, one verbaldescribing a sense of his new home.

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I intended to transform these projects into sequential stories that interweave the subjects of human desire against the backdrop of the delicate northern landscape

Each page has been specifically designed: the paper type

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and political systems

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discussed in its wider urban and historical context by architect Nino Tchatchkhiani

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