They had spent their entire life together traveling around Europe in a mobile home. In summer 2008, Lothar Gartner decided to venture on one last journey with his wife, Elke. Two years earlier, Elke has been diagnosed with dementia. Sibylle Fendt initially photographed Lothar and Elke at home before joining the couple on their last journey through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, all the way to St. Petersburg. In discreet and yet intimate photographs, Fendt tells a love story of growing apart, finding each other again, and then disappearing.
About the book
They had spent their entire life together traveling around Europe in a mobile home. In summer 2008, Lothar Gartner decided to venture on one last journey with his wife, Elke. Two years earlier, Elke has been diagnosed with dementia. Sibylle Fendt initially photographed Lothar and Elke at home before joining the couple on their last journey through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, all the way to St. Petersburg. In discreet and yet intimate photographs, Fendt tells a love story of growing apart, finding each other again, and then disappearing.