“Hinterland means on the one hand the sparsely populated tracts away from the big cities, in this series specifically the remote regions of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,” explains Hans-Christian Schink. “On the other hand the title refers to the imaginary landscapes that arise from my memory, landscapes I know from my childhood.” Place names are at the same time his picture titles and sound strange, foreign and out-of-time even to local ears: Grauenhagen, Plath, Bei Karpzow, Wriezen, Cölpin, Am Darschkower See.