When stories and images complement each other, then images of life emerge. With this book, Daniela Noitz & Roberto Muffoletto meet the requirement for a symbiotic connection between verbal and visual expression in an appealing, aesthetic way. This also expresses the longing for connectedness, which we carry within us, but which we rarely find fulfilled. Longing for a place called home, for security and the little happiness in the middle of everyday life, longing for the people who so often elude us and who we try to reach again and again. It is therefore also a book that gives hope, because it shows that there can be this connectedness if we allow it and let ourselves be involved.

Roberto Muffoletto, a photographer, living in Europe. He is director of VASA, an online center for media studies (vasa-project.com). He holds an MFA from SUNY Buffalo and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His photographic work has been exhibited internationally. He is past editor of Camera Lucida and Frame Work. He is the founder of CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, New York (USA).