“Dear Susanna, I’m very sorry”
For DIE ZEIT
2018
In June 2018 I was assigned with documenting the aftermath of the alleged murder and rape of a 14-year-old girl by an asylum seeker in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Together with the editors at DIE ZEIT and an amazing team of journalists in the field we made a conscious decision to keep a visual distance from the case and to refrain from photographing the young peers of the victim and the murderer.
Together with the editors at DIE ZEIT and an amazing team of journalists in the field we made a conscious decision to keep a visual distance from the case and to refrain from photographing the young peers of the victim and the murderer.
I spent the weekend following the discovery of the body revisiting the crime scene and other places connected to the crime trying to provide a calm and gentle view on the aftermath in a time of heated discussions about immigration and the instrumentalisation of crimes allegedly committed by foreigners through far-right organizations.