Fate is said to be the moment when life makes a decision. Joel Meyerowitz says that every time he presses the shutter, he says yes – to that exact moment. Günter Valda has worked for 16 years as a nurse in a hospital emergency room, and for over two years he has also said yes as a photographer – to the moment and to fate. Every fate must, to some extent, be his own, since each photo reveals at least as much about him as it does about the patient's struggle for survival and the efforts of the medical staff.
The emergency room of a hospital feels like a self-contained universe—sterile rooms without daylight, packed with medical equipment and staffed by people who are one hundred percent focused on making the right decisions for each case. Everything is functional, everything is professional. It's as if there were no outside world, only this space and this moment. And life is being decided.
"House Of Fate" reveals the narrow edge on which patients and staff move, never knowing which path fate will take.
Photo book, Hardcover,
270 × 210 mm, 160 pages
First edition, 2024
Price 38 Euro
Design by
Katrina Wiedner, 2021
Published by
Verlag Kettler
ISBN 978-3-86206-880-7
