In *Neighbours Nachbarn*, Collier Schorr returns repeatedly to southern Germany, where documentary observation and invented memory occupy the same visual field. Developed over twelve years, the project—part of the series *Forests and Fields*—centres on a small town inhabited by what the publisher calls “historical apparitions”: traces of a past that persist in landscape, family narrative and collective identity.

Schorr’s approach is deliberately composite. The work brings together the perspectives of a war photographer, travelling portraitist, anthropologist and family historian, without reducing the place to a single genre or historical account. Germany appears here not simply as a setting but as a map of the photographer’s own imagined and inherited history. Memory, nationalism, war, emigration and family are not treated as separate themes; they become interwoven forces shaping both the town and the lives recalled through it.

That ambiguity gives the book its particular seriousness. Its documentary impulse is continually unsettled by the possibility of fiction, while personal history opens onto broader questions of belonging and historical inheritance. Rather than offering a stable picture of a community, Schorr constructs a layered account in which the local and the national, the intimate and the political, remain in tension. For collectors interested in photography’s capacity to hold competing kinds of truth, this is a concise and focused example of a long-term, place-based practice.

Published by SteidlMACK in 2006, the 88-page hardcover contains 58 plates. Its compact scope and sustained subject make it especially legible as a complete photographic statement: a book concerned less with explaining a landscape than with showing how landscapes are remembered, imagined and passed on.