Every city shows its history, its geography, its economic and social realities in its streetscape. Anyone who pays attention will be able to perceive all of this. In principle, the elements are always the same: architecture, streets, cafés, parks, gardens, stores, industry, wasteland . . . However, they are always put together differently, resulting in rather diverse visions for each city.

Views of K. explores the specifics of Kaiserslautern. Elisabeth Neudörfl has photographed them, thereby removing them from their urban context so that they emerge in a novel way. The series begins with the archaeological finds in the city center, which mark the site of the medieval imperial palace, and continues through the various layers of architectural history to the traces of the US armed forces, visible both in the streets and through the air traffic in the sky.



Elisabeth Neudörfl (*1968) studied photography in Dortmund and Leipzig. In her work, she deals with urban space as an expression of social, political and historical discourses. She is a professor of documentary photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.