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Steffi Reimers (1995) is driven by a curiosity about the unknown. She sees herself as a storyteller who uses photography to explore and document people and the hidden narratives shaping their lives. Transience, trauma and loss recur throughout her work. Reimers travelled to Srebrenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), where she photographed the aftermath of the Yugoslav civil war, and to the region of Calabria (Italy), where she captured landscapes bearing the traces of the ‘Ndrangheta, the local mafia.
The symbiotic relationship between human presence and overwhelming nature often plays a central role in her series. This is certainly the case in At Road’s End (2025), for which Reimers travelled across Alaska on a challenging journey through a mythical, untouched landscape. Along the way, she encountered both devotees of the wilderness and reckless outcasts fleeing their own past. Her photographs convey deeply human stories of migration, history, and the attempt to build a new life. As Reimers notes: ‘In Alaska, the end of the road is more than just a point on a map; it is a state of mind. It is a place people go to disappear, to reflect, or to begin again.’ This project traces stories of loneliness, resilience and transformation in one of the world’s most remote and extreme landscapes. Why leave everything behind for such extremes? Is it an escape from something, or a movement towards something else?
Written by: Esther Darley