Sorrow Is All The Pain Of Love is a visual diary exploring sorrow, trauma and identity. Dealing with depression, Oliver Raschka investigates how personal traumas caused by drastic events, addiction issues in the family, and deep burnout manifest visually. It’s archival work with photographs from 2004-2025. By using photographs taken unintentionally and unconsciously, Oliver Raschka gains authentic and deep access to what really concerns. They often represent much deeper events that have shaped and preoccupied a lifetime. The recontextualization of decontextualized photographs from the archive leads to a reawakened sensitivity for the original events. The work offers a psychogram, showing how the unintentional and unconscious documentation of mental states in search of one's own identity are transformed into photographs.
