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SCHOOL HAS MANY FACES

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PHOTOGRAPHER KATHRIN HARMS PORTRAYS UNUSUAL SCHOOL CHILDREN

Do circus children have a classroom? Is there a school in prison? Who teaches children when they’re in hospital? Where do children of Rhine boat skippers go to school? Sometimes school is far from ordinary. A photographic journey through Germany.

MELISSA MNICH, 9 years old, lives and learns at the maritime children’s home in Mannheim.

FLORIAN LUTZ, 8 years old, attends the hospital school at the Asklepios Klinik Nord in Hamburg.

KEVIN JÄGER*, 17 years old, lives in a juvenile detention center in Berlin.

ISABELL MAATZ, 7 years old, comes from a family of circus artists and attends the circus school.

ALEXANDER BEISSWENGER, aged 7, goes to a tiny village school in Unterjoch in the Allgäu region.

MARVIN SCHWEITZER, 9 years old, is the son of a family of showpeople at the “Cannstatter Wasen” fairground in Stuttgart.

 

Photos: Kathrin Harms
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