This exhibition marked the Scottish premiere of work by two photographers from the Northrhine Westphalia region of Germany whose inner and outer topographies inform their separate imagery.

Simone Nieweg belongs to the second generation of Bernd and Hilla Becher students from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her work focuses on the suburban fields and allotments that are to be found in the densely populated and industrialised areas of the Ruhr and Lower Rhine regions of Germany. Devoid of human presence, these quietly beautiful colour photographs nonetheless attest to the profound human intervention in those seemingly unremarkable landscapes on the outskirts of the cities.

Laurenz Berges' subjects are the results of a close examination of the Rhenish brown coal area, a region near Cologne and Aachen. In this area whole communities were resettled because of the advancing open-cast mining. The reduced subjects in Berges' sensitive photographs show traces of this hasty departure.

Simone Nieweg was born in 1962 and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with teacher Bernd Becher. She has had several solo shows in Germany and been included in a number of group exhibitons in Europe. Her first major solo exhibition in England 'Landscapes and Gardens' is at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (May to September 2004).

Laurenz Berges (born 1966) studied at the University of Essen, worked as assistant to the photographer Evelyn Höfer in New York and returned to Germany to continue his studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1992 to 1996. Inclusion in a number of catalogues, solo shows in Germany, and participation in several group shows has positioned Berges well in the tradition of Hilla and Bernd Becher and former Master Students Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, and Thomas Ruff.

A minigraph with a commissioned essay by Dr Rupert Pfab was available.

The exhibition was in association with Goethe Institut Glasgow and with support from the Ministry of Culture of Northrhine Westphalia.

A selection of images from the show together with documention of the exhibition in-situ.