The photo project, The Absence and Presence of the Berlin Wall, focuses on Germany’s reunification post-1990. Using my camera, I documented the breaks opening in the city’s architecture and observed how nature had reclaimed space, apparently having obliterated many traces. At places where the Berlin Wall was erected as a border fortification system on the orders of the GDR government in August 1961, there are now new forms of inclusion and exclusion, but also places offering no clues to their history. Every 2.8 km – representing the 28 years of the Wall’s history – I photographically recorded those places where the divided city was a reality. I took six photos at every location of the front, back, left, right, sky, and ground and combined them to create composites. Architecture and nature refer symptomatically to the psychological dimension of this historical event. Through conversations and interviews with contemporary witnesses, memorial staff, residents along the Wall, and those affected by it, I exposed wounds and documented the story of reunification. People on both sides of the Wall are united by the aftermath having etched itself into their lives, reflected in their satisfaction with life.