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In this, her latest photographic series, Jessica Backhaus examines the signifigance of knowing one's own roots. Watch as she visits places of her childhood and youth and fills gaps in her memory, exploring at once the specificity of her own experience and the universiality of the need for roots.

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Jessica Backhaus is regarded as one of the most distinguished voices in contemporary photography in Germany today. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. To date, seven publications to her name; Jesus and the Cherries, 2005, What Still Remains, 2008, One Day in November, 2008, I Wanted to See the World, 2010, ONE DAY- 10 photographers, 2010, Once, still and forever, 2012 and Six degrees of freedom, 2015, all published by Kehrer Verlag. Her photographs are in many prominent art collections including Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany, ING Art Collection, Belgium, Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA and the Margulies Collection, Miami, USA. Jessica Backhaus is represented by Robert Morat Galerie in Hamburg and Berlin, Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, Galerie Anja Knoess in Cologne, Stieglitz 19 Gallery in Belgium, Wouter van Leeuwen Gallery in Amsterdam and Micamera Gallery in Milan. Lars Mextorf is a freelance curator and writer based in Berlin. Caroline von Courten (b. 1983, Germany) is based in Amsterdam. She currently holds the position of research assistant in the field of photography theory at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

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