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The dean is still there Roald Amundsen Anchored in the port of Tenerife. Two women from the crew climb onto one of the rigging, and Verena Brüning, positioned at the top of the mast, takes photographs down on it. It's the first shot you can see in her picture book “Windsbraut,” dynamic, stunning, and impressive. It certainly has a symbolic nature: it's not that the crew is looked down upon, but the sailing ship still has a long way to go. Without waves, the two women do what they often have to do on the high seas: climb into the shrouds to spread or take the sails.
The photos were taken in the winter of 2022/23, when Roald Amundsen She was on a private transatlantic flight: the crew of this 24-day voyage from Tenerife to Martinique was entirely female, numbering 47 women. It is run by the Living and Learning on Sailing Association. Roald Amundsen For 30 years. In 2009, the club accepted a female captain for the first time, and since then it has organized sailing trips frequently. However, never one of this size.
Clara Marquardt, who was on board the ship during the Atlantic crossing, states in her short epilogue that such all-female crews are highly controversial in the club as a result, with some men and some women feeling excluded. At the same time, other women were “encouraged to take up the challenge.”
From on board Roald Amundsen If you go, you don't do so in expectation of a nice prosecco cruise, where you can lie in the sunshine all day in your swimsuit while you go about your daily life with cool sparkling wine. Everyone must provide assistance on this Atlantic crossing, according to their abilities. There are professionals on board, led by the captain, as well as helmsmen and mechanics. As well as many helping hands.
Verena Brüning's photographs tell the story of the mood during these three and a half weeks. There are many moments of community, whether it's at work, over a meal, during parties, or during leisure hours on deck. In addition, there are also situations when you are alone or together. The pictures show tension, exhaustion, and concentration, as well as calm, serenity, curiosity, and joy. Sometimes Verena Brüning gets too close, focusing her gaze on individual people. Again, the sets, especially the ship, can often be seen from an unusual, and sometimes startling, perspective.
However, this is it Roald Amundsen It is never filmed in isolation, it is always about seeing the crew in action, how they drive the ship on the one hand and how they reach a temporary home on the other. Very few of the women on board know each other beforehand – and this is also the subject of the pictures: how cohesion develops or perhaps not. In the middle section of “Windsbraut” there are twenty images, one from each day of the voyage, showing the sea, horizon and sky. Same, but different every time – the sea, the light, the clouds. They are placed upright, so that the waves look like blue-tinted tree bark.
However, the Earth only appears at the beginning and at the end. In between it's about taking risks and feeling free. Not about a vacation, but about an experience. And about boldness. Which at least involves jumping naked overboard into the fresh waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Verena Bruning: Bride of the Wind. Mars Verlag, Berlin 2024. 136 pages, €48.
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