Over four years, Hans-Christian Schink repeatedly walked the same three-kilometer dirt road from his home in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, camera in hand. Along the Path gathers what that routine yielded: atmospheric black-and-white landscapes of an agricultural plain, vividly colorful portraits of flowers, and close studies of grasses and leaves. Published by Hartmann Books, the book concludes a trilogy of long-term photographic investigations of his home region, following Hinterland (2019) and Unter Wasser (2022). Repetition is the method, producing a portrait of a place that accumulates rather than announces itself.

The collection is deliberately composite. Schink contributes comprehensive lists documenting the flora and fauna observed along the route; his brother Martin Schink supplies bird drawings; the poet and prose writer Uwe Kolbe adds a literary text tracing a concrete and imagined path through the associations the material raises. Schink also writes. The interplay of photograph, drawing, list, and essay means the book asks to be read as much as viewed.

The volume runs to 204 pages at 24 by 30 centimeters, with German and English texts, around 280 illustrations, and design by Hannah Feldmeier. The publication accompanies an exhibition at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig from late November 2025 to early March 2026. The book draws on documentary and artistic registers without collapsing one into the other, and its layered assembly of image, text, and record is the core of the project.

Along the Path is significant for how it frames attention as an artistic discipline. Its subject is not scenery but the cumulative knowledge that comes from returning to one modest path, and the assembly of image, text, and record makes that argument with unusual coherence.