When queer identity enters public conversation today, it is young people who tend to occupy centre stage. Yet older queer generations — many of whom were forced to conceal their identities under legal persecution — are responsible for the milestones we now take for granted. Among them: the repeal of Paragraph 175, the German law that criminalised sexual acts between men for over 123 years, until 1994.

Mit Euren Spuren marks the anniversary of that repeal. As one of six photographers and the book's designer, I spent over a year documenting intimate encounters with eight queer elders — alongside Teo Apostolescu, Francesco Giordano, Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert, Florian Tenk, and Stella Deborah Traub. The resulting book brings together photographs, personal texts, and archival material to trace a transgenerational dialogue about queer life, memory, and inheritance. With a text by Kim de l'Horizon. Published by Distanz Verlag, 2024.