2023-09-30 09:00:00
“When the world was still in order, I always took photos of them,” says Seiichi Furuya. He hardly ever takes photos anymore. His entrance gate is open and he is currently watering the Chinese cabbage in the garden. He lives alone in a house on the outskirts of Graz. In the house he already lived in with his wife Christine Gössler. He photographed her almost continuously for seven years, even on October 7, 1985, the day on which she threw herself out of the window of an East Berlin prefabricated building and died. In his garden, Seiichi grows tomatoes and aubergine, as well as slightly minty-tasting shiso, which reminds him of his homeland. He left Japan in 1973. He took the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vienna via Moscow and finally settled in Graz. “At home “But I don’t feel anywhere,” he says.
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