From the state capital Bismarck it takes one and a half hours by car to New Leipzig, North Dakota, a prairie town of 300 souls. Founded in 1910 by German-Russian settlers who had already founded a second Leipzig in Bessarabia, it celebrates an Oktoberfest each June with a parade of combine harvesters and tractors and Polka dances. Sebastian Hesse's black-and-white photographs, taken in 2004, show a town whose German traditions are slowly dying.