Sascha Weidner’s photographic eye revealed the beauty of the ephemeral. He would consistently find motifs that told a past story like symbols of the absent. The bare forest clearing was once decorated with garlands and paper lanterns. The party is over, and all that remains are pale human traces, changing the ambiance of the now abandoned place into something eerie and uncanny.

(The photographer and artist Sascha Weidner died in 2015.)