‘The Trip To Panama’ – reportage about a child-appropriate anti-lockdown place in the Uckermark region of Brandenburg by Florian BÜTTNER c/o SOLAR UND FOTOGRAFEN for agency magazine RELEVANZ
“What is it all about? We probably all ask ourselves this question from time to time, and over the course of the past one and a half years, perhaps more than ever. And sometimes the search for answers only leads to further questions. In this case : What is important? What are we concerned about most? What moves us and shakes us? What is of relevance? One thing that certainly counts for our photographers : all things visual. Which is why, at the beginning of the year, we decided at SOLAR UND FOTOGRAFEN to compile the answers to these questions in a magazine. With authentic images and topics of individual relevance.” This is the story behind how RELEVANZ was created, which the agency presents us here on GoSee.
Florian BÜTTNER c/o SOLAR UND FOTOGRAFEN presents us his personal family reportage here on GoSee. “For most of us, the past year has been quite hard. But for my family and several of my friends, it would have been much worse if we would not have had this old farm property in the Uckermark region of Brandenburg, about two hours north of Berlin. What began three years ago as a weekend and vacation project became a place of refuge during the time of Corona in many ways. A kind of anti-Covid or anti-lockdown place.
In the first months, we took turns driving there to escape Berlin and the madness of the first months of Corona. Later – as soon as it was possible thanks to quick tests – we met up there together so our kids had someone else to play with again. When we bought the farm, we named it ‘Panama’, inspired by Janosch’s book ‘The Trip to Panama’ – little did we know that the place would become something like a parallel universe three years later under the conditions imposed due to the pandemic. You could actually feel how everyone that came there started to breathe again. Without masks, without standing in line, no restrictions, no worries.
The more time we spent there, far away from the city and being constantly confronted with the latest Corona figures, the further away from it all we felt. We forgot about it altogether in the meantime – until we had to go into town again to shop where we saw people wearing masks in front of the supermarket.
‘Panama’ was a place where we bonded during that time, and it made us rethink our lives, having experienced living an easy life in the country. In a crisis like this, the accepted normality of living cooped up together in a small space in the middle of a concrete desert did seem a bit absurd at times.
This work was created over the course of two weeks in May when some of the restrictions had been eased and we were all allowed to finally be there again with everyone else. Filled with the feeling of the approaching summer season and the feeling of now perhaps finally having the worst behind us.”
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