The Importance of Giving Back 1/2

A multimedia story about leaving and returning, about passing on, and giving back.

Josef

“If I think about all the places where my children have been, the luck that they have had, and the luck they have given on to their children. To you.

They should now try to give something back”

- Part 1/2 – Josef

Location: Brühl Pingsdorf -

“Here, it used to be quite busy back in the day.

All of a sudden, people started moving,

leaving for the unknown, arriving from everywhere.

So I decided to travel with your father – isn’t that right?

If I think about all the places where my children have been, the luck that they have had, and the luck they have given on to their children. To you.

They should now try to give something back,

to people who weren’t as privileged as they were.

The community has given so much,

now you also have to get involved.

Your father found that amusing.

I said, ‘the form is yours to shape!’

But you can’t just take part as an audience.

We have to give back, even when it is difficult.

But that’s only my opinion.”

(These images and words were taken in conversations between grandfather and granddaughter. A story about leaving and returning, about passing on, and giving back. Sophie Leyendecker is a documentary photographer from Germany, based in the Netherlands.)