雪！

お昼頃、雪が降ってきた！！

大粒のみぞれで冷たいのなんの、、、。

ポカポカと暖かい秋が過ぎ去り、とうとう寒い冬がやってきました。

Photography as a documentation

Peter has been working late for his first issues of 20 Minuten Friday. Last night I went to sleep before he came home. This morning, after Peter left for work, I saw a newspaper article laying over my part of the desk (we share a desk that used to be a door and was trashed on the street). I did not read the whole article, because it was long and in German, but it was about a young American photographer Alex Soth who has an exhibition in the Photography Museum in Winterthur. Peter highlighted the text that explains one of his projects “Dog Days, Bogota.” Alex Soth documented a town of Bogota in Columbia where he and his wife spent 2 months, waiting to adopt their daughter. We always wanted to document the process of adoption for our future kid, and photography would be a great way, Peter said. We have been writing our adoption diary, in which we write everything from the start of our adoption journey to volunteering in Thailand. Both of us being designers, although not writer or photographer, we feel it’s our duty to document as much as possible, from our point of view and with our creativity.

When I saw this article about Alex Soth, I was pleased to know that someone in the creative field has also been through adoption and openly shared his experience with a broad audience. We’ve been on a waiting list for 14 months by now, and every second I have spent waiting for our precious one has been a gift. I think Peter realised it as well, and this newspaper cutout was a way to communicate our thoughts in hectic daily life.