Dust to dust.
The Silence.

One can imagine the sounds in these working rooms very well.
The faint rumbling of the coffins.
The sound when a coffin is put on a wagon.
The sound of the wheels on the tiled floor.
The ringing of a phone, the humming of the electric fan.
The sound of the people working here.
A conversation, a joke, a curse.

And yet their is the silence, slightly unreal. (...)

Text by Benedikt Erenz, published along with my pictures in German news magazine "DIE ZEIT", November 2002.

Pictures taken August 1997 to January 1999.

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