Republik im Ruhestand, 2019

Retired Republic, 2019

— How could our environment look like if it is made by retirees?

In face of the aging society the photographer Paulina Hildesheim is creating a visual microcosm. She dives deep into the world of old people, visits a retirement home, health resorts, a danube cruise and tries to find out how it feels like to be old.

With her series she offers the viewer a new access to the topic of being old and questions the current visual representation of elderly in photography.

Republik im Ruhestand, 2019

Retired Republic, 2019

The work has been self-published as a book in an edition of 50. It contains 48 color photographs on 58 pages in the dimensions of 17 x 24 cm. The book received the German Photobookaward 2019/2020 in Silver in the Category "Studentisches Projekt".

The series was exhibited in Germany at Kühlhaus Berlin and Technische Sammlungen Dresden. It was featured in HANT Magazin No. 12 "Zeichen der Zeit" and in "digit - Magazin für Digitalfotografie" together with an interview and got selected as PHmuseum 2020 editors' pick.