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 obliterating many traces. In 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. I cycled along the roughly 160-km long Berlin Wall Trail starting from and ending at the Brandenburg Gate. Every 2.8 km – representing the 28 years of the Wall’s history - I photographically recorded those places where the divided city used to be a reality. I took six photos at each location (front, back, left, right, sky, and ground) and created composites in Photoshop. Architecture and nature refer symptomatically to the psychological dimension of this historical event. Through additional conversations and interviews with contemporary witnesses, memorial staff, residents along the Wall, and those affected, I exposed wounds and documented the reunification story. People on both sides of the Wall are united by the aftermath having etched itself into their lives, reflected in their (dis)satisfaction with life. I am currently working on turning this project into a book.