The Experiment of a Different Life

Photographers have to be chameleons. They should find it easy to put themselves in the positions of those living really varying lifestyles. This ability gives them the possibility to evaluate whether unusual ways of living life could be transferred to their own existence. Would one want to become a member of a flat-sharing community living outside of traditionally accepted social norms in a traveller's encampment in Potsdam with eight adults, two kids, six dogs, seven cats, three pigs, and two sheep? The photographer Gordon Welters was impressed by the loving community-feeling in this exotic family model. As he is no longer as young as the children Miro and Ida, however, he didn't find the return to his own world that difficult after all.