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Normally, the members of the garage communities meet once a year to discuss their concerns. This time, young photographer Maria Sturm brings them together from dozens of different garage yards and puts them in front of her camera to create something extraordinary. The Romanian-born artist met over 100 people and captured them in large-format por­traits. Her images don’t just portray the people who use the garages: They also reveal a diversity that you might not have expected from the seemingly monotonous garage landscapes. Sturm’s photographs tell stories about isolation and togetherness, fragile strength and self-assured level-headedness. The portraits will be on display in shops in Chemnitz from January to the end of April 2025 and will move to the Garage Campus on Zwickauer Straße in the second half of the year.