Marie Gamillscheg, Laura Braun / Day X – Westerngrund

Day X is a series of 5 publications, each featuring a one-day collaboration between a writer and a photographer working in Europe.

Book No. 3: In the series, author Marie Gamillscheg and photographer Laura Braun spent the 25th of March 2016, the 60th birthday of the European Union, in a village that hosted the union’s centre: Westerngrund, Unterfranken, Germany. Day X – Westerngrund charts their search for a middle and its meaning.

About the artist
Laura Braun is a German-born freelance photographer based in Berlin and London. She studied art, design, photography and sociology at Central St. Martin’s and Goldsmiths college and has since worked for editorial and commercial clients as well as exhibited her personal work in the UK and internationally. In her documentary photography Laura focuses on people and their relationship with their everyday environment, and has developed a particular interest in people at work. She takes a warm and human approach to her subjects and brings a calm aesthetic to her studio and location portraits. Clients include: Action for Children, Kinfolk Magazine, Land Securities, Lucky Peach Magazine, Monocle Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, Universal, Wedgewoo.

About the publisher 
Paper Tigers Books is an independent publisher of limited edition artists’ books and multiples founded by photographer Laura Braun in London in 2011 in order to publish her own work as well as that of collaborators and friends.

Language: English
Size: 15 x 12 cm, 24 pages
Binding: softcover
Edition: 150
Publisher: Paper Tigers Books, 2016