EXPANDING SPACE

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Welcome to New Honsberg:

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Expanding space is visual research that begins from Honsberg quartier and continues within the surrounding cities of Remscheid. During the project, I visited various industrial areas in the daytime and turned back to Honsberg for the night as workers did. I have tried to experiment with daily life in this new environment.

Since the end of the 18th century, the Honsberg region has been considered a residential area for the lower economic class. Many workers in the Bergische steel industry and other large companies on the heights of Remscheid lived there with their families in workers' settlements. 

The street artworks on the big facades of worker houses, the bunker built in the middle of this residential area, the natural environment of the region, the neighborhood residents, and their relations with each other were the most important elements of my images.

My photographic journey started with a focus on exploring the Honsberg region and continued with visits to industrial sites in nearby cities such as Duisburg, Dortmund, Essen, and Solligen.

In my work, which I produced by spending my days in the industrial zones and my nights in Honsberg, like the workers of the region, I began to think about the differences or the similarities of the layers in all these regions. These industrial areas began to appear fragmentarily as new layers in the images of the region, which still represent the past, present, and perhaps the future of workers' housing. The invisible connections between these different environments began to become visible through the combination of layers from the industrial areas and within the region itself. In this series of photographs, where industrial elements and houses are seen as a single piece, natural elements are used as a unifying element. 

These images, in which you can discover different details at every glance, also open the doors to a new world: a new Honsberg with all its invisible layers.