Übermorgen Schnee (Tomorrow Snow) is a photographic book by Sonja Trabandt, published by Hartmann Books in 2020. The hardcover volume has 136 pages and measures 20 × 25 cm, with roughly 60 illustrations and a tipped-in image on the cover. The book’s texts are printed in German and English; the publisher lists texts by Sonja Trabandt and by an author credited as Anonymous. Trabandt is credited as the photographer, as an author of the book’s texts, and as its designer.
The project follows Trabandt’s friend, identified in the book as A., through her experience of cancer. The publisher describes it as a story about cancer, depression, and friendship, and situates the work within a sensitive, documentary visual narrative that moves from the initial diagnosis through the phases of the illness and the emotions that accompany them. According to the publisher, the book addresses fear of treatment, existential worries, and emerging hope, as well as hair loss and questions of femininity.
The publisher notes that the photographs alternate between staged, analytical images and emotional depictions of states of mind, and that A.’s coping with everyday life is set against feelings such as fear, euphoria, sadness, and the depression that follows treatment. The publisher states that the images are intended to let viewers approach the subject of cancer beyond moments of shock and fear. The book has been covered in the press by Artconnect and by Conscientious, where Jörg M. Colberg wrote about it.
