Photo project “There is glory in prevention”

Akut SOS Clean at the Stuttgart exhibition

Frankfurt/Stuttgart, October 26, 2020. “There is glory in prevention” is a unique exhibition that opened in Stuttgart on Friday. The Stuttgart photojournalist Patrick Junker has been accompanying people in systemically relevant professions and challenging situations with his camera since the beginning of the corona pandemic and contact restrictions. The result is touching images that show people in their everyday lives. The photographer also spent an eventful day with Marcell Engel, managing director of Akut SOS Clean, and his team during special Corona disinfection operations.

“The result is images that tell of people who sometimes push themselves to the limit of their endurance and beyond,” explains Patrick Junker. He wanted to know how intensive care unit nurses prepare for Corvid-19 patients, what funerals of the deceased without relatives feel like, how artists reach their audiences under these conditions and much more. There are impressive emotional moments that he captured in the picture from different perspectives.

Marcell Engel also experienced a lot of touching things: "We helped those most in need with the highest priority. Sometimes to the point of total exhaustion, for example when a nursing home had to be evacuated at very short notice and we were there all night long to give the residents their usual environment again. How close that affected us was written on our faces more than once."
The project uses reports and portraits to talk about everyday life in times of the corona pandemic. Patrick Junker: "The actions in Stuttgart's public space and the website are intended to be a reminder of what society achieved during the first wave through solidarity and understanding. At the same time, with this project we would like to achieve cohesion for the coming weeks and months and a preventative effect on a possible second wave of the pandemic."

Since October 24th, a picture of the work has been shown every day for two weeks on the info screens in 108 train stations in Stuttgart.

From October 27th to 31st: Images of the work will be presented on a 98 inch screen at ten locations in public spaces. Musicians from the Stuttgart cultural scene will play.

Click here for the planned actions of the project https://thereisgloryinprevention.de/

Patrick Junker presents his pictures until November 6th, 2020 in cooperation with BLOMST! gUG in the public urban space of the state capital Stuttgart.

The stories behind the pictures have been told on www.thereisgloryinprevention.de since October 24, 2020. The project takes place as part of the special funding program “Art despite Distance” of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg.
Other supporters and partners include the Stuttgart Community Foundation, the Economic Development Region Stuttgart GmbH, the health department of the state capital Stuttgart, the Marienhospital, the initiative “Artists*innen Soforthilfe Stuttgart / KultiG e.V.” as well as Times Mirror reports.