With Summer Heart, German photographer Thekla Ehling (born in 1968) keeps pace with the growing up of her children and friends. She documents situations and moods so that the viewers find themselves entangled in connotations and memories of their own childhoods. Ehling's pictures often show moments of isolation, in which a young spirit seems to regard itself as if in a trance. There are preoccupied looks, evidently comparing a current event with one already experienced.


In 2008, the book was presented successfully at the first New York Photo Festival and Photo Miami, and the series will be shown at the 2009 PULSE Contemporary Art Fair in New York.