
Within me · 2026
Dreaming of a better place
What does it mean to feel like you belong somewhere else?
I travelled to Switzerland to visit my wife’s family. I felt like I belonged there more. Less racism. Less fear.
An Ausländer. How can that be?
Where do I belong?
Source credits
Original photography by Matthew Kenneth Hendricks
J.M.W. Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834, 1835
August Macke, People by the Blue Lake, 1913
Claude Monet, Un Moulin à Zaandam (A Windmill at Zaandam), 1871
Egon Schiele, Seated Man in an Orange Sweater, 1915