![Mediterranean, near Tarragona, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_1-Kopie-1000x750.jpg)
![Mediterranean, near Tarragona, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_1-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Industrial zone at the airport, Saragossa, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_2-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Yangshan Island, China](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_3-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Yangshan Island, China](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_4-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Coal power plant, Rotterdam Harbor, Netherlands](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_5-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Storing and loading raw oil, Bilbao, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_6-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Unloading containers, Rotterdam, Netherlands](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_7-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Grain silos, Antwerp Harbor, Belgium](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_8-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Barcelona Harbor, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_9-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Storing components for offshore wind farms, Bremerhaven, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_10-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Yangshan deep-water port, China](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_11-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Processing and storing coal in Rotterdam harbor, Netherlands](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_12-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Runway, freight airport, Leipzig, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_13-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Frankfurt Airport, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_14-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Package logistics, distribution center at Cologne-Bonn Airport, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_15-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Freight airplane, Frankfurt, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_16-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Goods at Leipzig freight airport, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_17-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Maschen rail yard, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_18-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Pressed recycled metal, Duisburg Harbor, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_19-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Recycled metal, Duisburg Harbor, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_20-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Iron ore waste dump, Hamburg Harbor, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_21-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Warehouse, Antwerp, Belgium](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_22-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Grain silo, container, Antwerp Harbor, Belgium](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_23-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Warehouses, Antwerp, Belgium](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_24-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Industrial zone, Saragossa, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_25-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Constructing a new container terminal at Rotterdam Harbor, Netherlands](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_26-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Storing empty containers, Bilbao, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_27-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Approaching the container terminal, Yangshang Island, China](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_28-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Container terminal, Hamburg, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_29-Kopie-697x522.jpg)
![Loading cars at Emden Harbor, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_30-Kopie-697x522.jpg)
![Container terminal, Rotterdam, Netherlands](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_31-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Railway link, Rotterdam Harbor, Netherlands](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_32-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Coal waste dump in Tarragona, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_33-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Rail yard, Valencia, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_34-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Online merchant’s high bay warehouse, Haldensleben, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_35-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Freight airport, Leipzig, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_36-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Package distribution center at Cologne-Bonn Airport, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_37-Kopie-695x522.jpg)
![Yangshan Island, China](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_38-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Barcelona Harbor, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_39-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Mouth of Rotterdam Harbor, Netherlands](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_40-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Schelde River, near Antwerp, Belgium](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_41-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Oil refinery in Antwerp, Belgium](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_42-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Gas containers, Rotterdam Harbor, Netherlands](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_43-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Exporting new cars, Emden Harbor, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_44-Kopie-697x522.jpg)
![Processing freight at Cologne-Bonn Airport, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_45-Kopie-695x522.jpg)
![Atlantic coast, near Bilbao, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_46-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Container habor, Hamburg, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_47-Kopie-697x522.jpg)
![Automated transport systems, Rotterdam, Netherlands](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_48-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Raw materials storage, Tarragona, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_49-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Donghai Bridge, China](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_50-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Container terminal, Yangshan deep-water port, China](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_51-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Rest stop, northern Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_52-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Tarragona Harbor, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_53-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Package distribution center, Lodz, Poland](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_54-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![An online merchant’s returned goods warehouse, Haldensleben, Germany](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_55-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
![Warehouse in Vilarreal, Spain](https://henrikspohler.de/en/u1903/In-Between_56-Kopie-696x522.jpg)
In Between
2013-2015Never before have commodities been shifted so fast and so far around the world as they are being today. A T-shirt from Taiwan, felt slippers from Tyrol, wine from Australia – ordered today and delivered to your door tomorrow. Even the individual ingredients for a tub of strawberry yoghurt, when taken together, have already covered several thousand kilometres before landing on the refrigerated shelf of a local supermarket. How is this possi-ble? What infrastructure does it require? Henrik Spohler’s project takes us into that difficult-to-access intermediate realm of logistics where commodities are transhipped at an ever increasing speed: the freight areas of airports, the labyrinths of railway tracks in large shunting yards, the warehouses of international haulage contractors, the container terminals of sea ports. Photographed in six different countries, these special zones, streamlined for ruthless efficiency, develop an aesthtic of their very own that oscillates between clear structure, an almost meditative monotony and a gigantism the sheer dimensions of which often go beyond man’s powers of imagination. In these places, all individuality has been rationalised away; it is scarcely possible to say whether the scenario is in Europe or Asia. Here, consumer society has created itself a seemingly fictional nameless realm of pure functionality.
Hartmann Books, 2017, ISBN 978-3-96070-004-3
Text: Thomas Assheuer (English/German)
128 pages, 56 colour plates, hardcover 30 x 22,5 cm
hartmannprojects.com