TXL is a long-term project that started in 2010 and ended at November 8th, 2020 with the closing of TXL.
When I started taking snapshots at Berlin's Tegel Airport (TXL) in 2010, I limited myself to the smartphone with always the same app and filter and only at TXL Airport.
At that time I expected a short series, after all the reopening of the airport BER was planned for 2012, which would have been the end for Tegel at the same time.
The last days and months of TXL have already lasted many years and I just continued the series.
An airport is not only a traffic junction, it is also a social microcosm. One finds all social classes, different origins, religion, professions. The rich and the poor, those who stay and those who leave. The seekers and the finders.
As an observer, one is captivated by the hectic pace and the quiet moments and moves between business bustle, professional calm and is surrounded by the joy of reunion and the pain of farewell.