Those Who Go Those Who Stay

It is a deliberate and unintentional way of looking that invites chance. Across Europe and around the Mediterranean, Ruth Beckermann spins a web out of journeys and escape routes and poses the question if the difference between staying and going is solely a matter of time. Nigerian asylum seekers in Sicily, drunk nationalists in Vienna, three veiled women trying for minutes to cross a traffic-heavy street in Alexandria. Those Who Go Those Who Stay tells of being on the road around the world and within oneʼs own life.