THROUGH MY BROTHER’S EYES — Yea, Nah Cheers!

Remember when I talked about how you have to adapt when your circumstances change and to look at it as a new opportunity? Well, the break from my original travels offered me another chance to do something that I wanted to do since the day shit hit the fan in my family. Now was the time to do it.

In La Coruña my brother spent probably the happiest year of his life while doing his Erasmus year there. Out of the parent’s house and into a completely unknown city, all by himself. It was the first time he left to live away from home at all, a move we hadn’t seen coming at all and which was a great surprise for us.

The lively streets of La Coruña at night

For him it was a time to which he later often referred to and about which he still was raving years after. He also met the love of his life there, which makes the city an even bigger chapter of his far too short life.

Getting to know the city therefor wasn’t a holiday for me. It was finding traces of a life and going back in time, to visit the places he went to, getting a feeling for the atmosphere he sensed and see the things he saw.

To prepare I did quite some research, searching locations, identifying buildings, find out directions and addresses. I dug through photos he took, searched Google Maps and Street View and finally got my very own and personal map of La Coruña, allowing me to shoot a personal series of the city and my brother’s locations.

All this I documented in this series about following my brother´s traces through “his” city.