Hände

The bestselling author duo Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta, known for their successful and award-winning book "Living Again Before Death," now presents a new, impressive photo book: "Hands." The internationally renowned photographer Walter Schels has always been fascinated by hands. They are the most expressive part of the human body after the face. Life also leaves its mark on them. When he portrayed personalities from politics, culture, and the intellectual world, Schels also captured the palms of their hands. This resulted in fascinating and poignant black-and-white portraits of unusual closeness and directness. His images are complemented by texts from journalist Beate Lakotta; in her essay, she describes the insights about humanity that sciences such as evolutionary biology, genetics, or anthropology draw from the shape of our hands.