Isabel Wachenheimer, Erica en Hansl in de tuin van de woning van Willy Moos in Hamburg, Bellevue 62, in maart-april 1935 Possibly 1935

This photograph was taken in March or April of 1935 in Hamburg, and we don’t even know by whom. The tonal range of the image plays with light and shadow, creating a study in gray that feels more like a memory than a captured moment. Look at the way the light falls, elongating the children's shadows. It's almost like the shadows are characters themselves, mirroring the figures. The backdrop, a blurred tableau of trees and a building, contrasts with the clear focus on the children. There’s a tension created through this contrast, which is a dance between clarity and obscurity, presence and absence. It reminds me of some of Gerhard Richter's blurry photographs turned paintings, where the act of looking becomes an act of questioning. The image feels both distant and intimate, and it offers no fixed narrative, just a fragment of a story, leaving us to fill in the blanks with our own projections.