110 color ills.
Hardcover 28 x 37 cm 232 pages
Designed by Kehrer Design (Anja Aronska)
English / German
ISBN 978-3-86828-918-3
Euro 59,00 / GBP 54.00 / US$ 68.00

Since ten years, the internationally acclaimed film director and photo artist Franziska Stünkel has been travelling through Asia, Africa, Europe, and America in search of natural reflections in shop windows, which, in their concentration, tell of the coexistence of human life. Charged with the utmost complexity, her photographs are the visualization of the similarities and contrasts that exist in our multifaceted, networked world. The artist completely dispenses with the digital post-processing of her photographs. The result is a multi-layered view of the highly topical question of coexistence in our present time, supplemented with texts by well-known authors and scientists from various fields, for instance artificial intelligence, biology, psychology, happiness studies, linguistics, culture, and anxiety research. Franziska Stünkel examines sociopolitical issues in her movies. The photographic series Coexist depicts her globe-encompassing search for peaceful coexistence.

Authors and essays in the book COEXIST:
• Karin Rehn-Kaufmann, Art Director & Chief Representative Leica Galleries International (COEXIST I INTRODUCTION I FRANZISKA STÜNKEL)
• Prof. Dr. Jannis Androutsopoulos, Linguist, University of Hamburg, Germany (COEXIST I LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE)
• Prof. Dr. Borwin Bandelow, Psychiatrist and Phobia Researcher, University of Göttingen, Germany (COEXIST I FEAR)
• Prof. Dr. Türker Baş, Organizational Psychologist, Galatasaray University Istanbul, Turkey (COEXIST I OXYTOCIN)
• Bela B Felsenheimer, Musician, Writer and Actor, Germany (COEXIST I CO-EXIST)
• Karen Guggenheim, Founder World Happiness Summit, University of Miami, USA (COEXIST I HAPPINESS)
• Mark Stephen Meadows, Entrepreneur, Author and Inventor, Los Angeles, USA (COEXIST I ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE)
• Dr. Florian Langenscheidt, Author and Founder of Children for a better World, Berlin, Germany (COEXIST I IDENTITIES)
• Piotr Młodozeniec, Graphic Designer, Warsaw, Poland (COEXIST I SIGN)
• Iris Phan, Lawyer and Philosopher, University of Hanover, Germany (COEXIST I SEX ROBOTS)
• Moritz Rinke, Playwright and Novelist, Berlin, Germany (COEXIST I VISION)
• Anno Saul, Film Director, Berlin, Germany, Germany (COEXIST I PROCESSES)
• Prof. Bernhard Schlink, Writer and Jurist, New York, USA / Berlin, Germany (COEXIST I HEIMAT)
• Dr. Georg Toepfer, Biologist, Berlin, Germany (COEXIST I BIOLOGY)
• Stephen Vasconcellos, Publisher and Co-Founder Reboot The Future, London, England (COEXIST I THE GOLDEN RULE)