Fernweh is Lukas Birk's most personal work, made from the lives of his late father and grandfather and from his own, exploring the parallels and the differences between the three. His grandfather Viktor served as a soldier in the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany during the Second World War; his father Andreas was a traveller and adventurer of the 1970s and 80s; and finally there is Lukas himself, a contemporary wanderer and artist.

Old travellers' guides, maps and handcrafted family albums of mountain excursions and far-away road trips coexist with material from Lukas' own store of prints, journals, travel memoirs and portraits of anonymous men, collected or produced between 1999 and 2017.

“Fernweh unwraps the lifetime of three generations of men who shared a passion for travelling, photography and the mountains.” — Natasha Christia