Germany is no easy country to sum up in 80 images. Yet, photographer Bastienne Schmidt–who has been living in New York since 1988–has done just that. Presented here is her trip with a camera through the country of her birth. The award-winning artist has discovered a severe, dark, and sometimes bizarre, place; it all looks somewhat strange and at the same time familiar through her lens. The photographs, which have a great suggestive power, turn the completely ordinary into a seemingly strange and different world. With portraits of people and places that exude a certain distance, unusual perspectives (crisp twin beds with peaked pillows) and extraordinary details (a soccer field seen through the net of the goal), Schmidt takes the viewer on a provocative journey through Germany’s past and present. ShadowHome is simultaneously a tribute and a hard, critical and loving look at a country–and what it means to return home.