The Sea Remembers
Decades after World War II, Rosemarie Zens returns for the first time to the town in today’s Poland where she was born. In 1945, when she was just a young child, her mother had been forced to flee with her in a wave of refugees. She embarks on a search for clues about her early life, a quest to find out what origins and the memory traces that remain might tell her about her first formative experiences. With her camera, she captures the things that catch her attention: the expanses of meadows, the paths into the unknown, the silhouettes of nighttime shadows. Mysterious and ethereal landscapes mingle with photos from family albums, intertwining fragmentary memories with pictorial inventions.
(from the press release)
Essays: Rosemarie Zens
Design: Eva Maria Kroder / Rosemarie Zens
Selected title German Photo Book Award 2015
Linensoftcover
18,5 x 25 cm 
French flap dust jacket (poster 71 x 40 cm)
144 pages
30 color and 20 b/w ills.
German/English
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2014
ISBN 978-3-86828-505-5 USC
Euro 36,00 / US$ 50.00
The Sea Remembers in the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
https://griffinmuseum.org/shop/sea-remembers-rosemarie-zens/ https://griffinmuseum.org/show/rosemarie-zens/
Reviews
Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe February 24, 2017
Seeing memories with more than the mind’s eye
George Slade, Photoeye-Blog
Immigrants All. Elin Spring. What will you remember, Febr.1, 2017
Jörg Colberg, Conscientious Photography Magazine
Andrea Gnam, Photonews