Portraits, open-cast mining, landscape, periphery, industrial architecture, cityscapes, parks, social housing, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Essen, Hürtgenwald: fourteen photographers from North Rhine-Westphalia make in this book an individual stocktaking of the region. Their photographic series and films deal, for example, with people and their varied origins, their ways of life and social circumstances. Urban architecture and urban change form a further focus, and history, of course, also plays a role.