ANDREA HOYER: RECOLLECTIONS Boogie observing and absorbing the essence

observing and absorbing the essence of daily life as it was offered to him by his fellow citizens

Sometimes I succeeded in showing that world: not the real world customary to us

Like Robert Frank or Helen Levitt

building a fragmented visual diary that captures the instability

in stories

ANDREA HOYER: RECOLLECTIONS Boogie observing and absorbing the essenceDistilling six years of travel across the former Soviet Union, these images, reminiscent of Tarkovsky and the vision of W. G. Sebald, portray two intertwining dreamtimes: Moscow and the provinces. Hoyer's glimpses of timeless moments of reflection, hope and doubt at the edges of history are not mere mementoes but images in which the daydreams of her subjects seem to leave their mark on the paper. The book is divided into segments of black and white