Untitled, from the portfolio “Area”

This photograph comes from a portfolio that documents the development of a former industrial site in the Munich suburbs. Throughout the 1990s, Joachim Brohm photographed the area as it was demolished and remade into a residential development called Park City for upper-and-middle class urban families. Brohm was drawn to the intimacies of human experiences in seemingly impersonal cityscapes. In this portfolio, Brohm examined the repurposing of land at the city’s edge with particular interest in the aesthetic aspects of what some of his compatriots considered a desirable place to live.