Beatrice Minda (born 1968) was a pupil of Katharina Sieverding at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Since 2003 she has been working on a series of photographs that explore the intertwined subjects of homeland, exile and collective identity as they manifest in the living spaces of Romanian migrants. The earliest photographs of these interiors were taken in Romania, the "atmospheres of the spaces in my childhood" (as the artist testifies). Other photographs were taken in Paris, Munich and Berlin, preferred destinations of twentieth-century Romanian migrants. In a third section, Minda photographed the shacks of Romanian migrant workers in the suburbs of Paris. This handsomely produced monograph is the first presentation of this wonderful series, along with an introduction by Ulrich Pohlmann and essays by art historian Felix Hoffmann and German-Romanian author Richard Wagner.