Typ/Traube/Tross
Sebastian Wells
With this photo project, Ostkreuz photographer Sebastian Wells visually examines why young people support nationalism, using Flanders as an example. In portraits of uniformed members of a nationalist student fraternity and in his examination of illustrated books from the Nazi era as well as the collective memory of passers-by, he analyses the identity construct of right-wing extremists and their ideas of community. The artist sees his role as that of an archaeologist, as his images create a visual environment in which the past inextricably intersects with the present.
