During her travels through the regions of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Germany, Austrian photographer Petra Steiner fell in love with the wide expanses of the Uckermark and photographed them in the progression of the seasons. Steiner, who lives in Berlin, received a distinction in architectural photography in 1995 and photographs exclusively analogue with a Sinar P2 camera. Though architecture is her profession, with the images of this rambling landscape – also called the “Tuscany of the north” – she was able to find her passion for free work without commission. The abbreviation “cdf” in the image titles is a reference to Caspar David Friedrich – a good luck charm of sorts for her photographs. And it is a reference to the yearning for open space, unencumbered breathing, an ensouled perambulation through a landscape. Sheltered solitude, stillness, emptiness, and nature pure as we know and recognize from Romanticism: these are the associations that the photographer recommends so warmly to us in her peaceful photographs.