This is a story of human mortality written on the landscape.In looking at present day Berlin through the filter of history,this project reveals some of the consequences of enforced political borders. In total 140 individuals died as a direct result of the BerlinWall.Focusing on those who lost their lives in failed attempts to flee from the East, Death|s|trip probes the contingent properties of meaning, memory,and reflection in relation to both the landscape and the photographic image. Each site photograph was made on the date that coincides with the anniversary of of the victim's death.
Artist/photographer Terri Warpinski travels the world in her creative practice focusing on the relationship between personal, cultural, and natural histories as revealed through the landscape subject.Her work has been shown internationally in more than a hundred exhibitions, at such venues as the Pingyao International Festival of Photography in China; the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem; Houston International Fotofest; the Center for Photography in Woodstock, New York; the University of the Arts in Philadelphia; and Camerawork in San Francisco.
Awards She has been distinguished as a Fulbright Scholar in Israel in 2000 - 2001. In 2014 she was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Art Commission, and in 2013 and 2016 Career Opportunity Grants through the Ford Family Foundation and Oregon Arts Commission. Most recently she was a recipient of a DAAD Research Grant (2017) to Berlin working with the Stiftung Berliner Mauer as her host institution.
