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No one lives in the houses on Hasselwerder Strasse in Neuenfelde. A symptom of the threat from the nearby Airbus factory and its airport, which recently extended its runway towards the town, it raises questions of the communitys survival. Fearing lawsuits from residents, the government purchased more than 60 homes on the approach path. Roger Eberhard captures the resulting, eerie emptiness in this series of 34 photographs of houses and trees. The homes stand clean and intact, the trees look healthy, but behind this facade lies a certain discomfort, a sense that something is wrong. Includes a 140-cm-long foldout and an essay by Stefanie Gerke.