
A Second Beating Heart
- Publisher
- Shift Books
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 978-3-948174-13-2
- Specifications
- 21 x 27 cm
104 pages
German / English
Edit by Gillian Henn
Design by Christine Lange
Silver, Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2023/24
Longlisted, Stiftung Buchkunst 2022
Shortlisted, Belfast Photo Festival 2022
The birth of a child marks not only the beginning of a new life but the birth of a mother: a second beating heart finds its place inside her body. And when that second heart suddenly beats outside the body, everything is turned upside down. The work tells the story of a woman who, after giving birth, stops leaving her house. What begins almost imperceptibly becomes the new reality, and over nearly three years the house turns into her shelter and her cocoon.