Neighbors/Nachbarn

Neighbours / Nachbarn is Collier Schorr's photographic study of a German village, made over repeated visits and built around the teenagers and young men she photographed there.

Published by MACK in 2006, the book continues Schorr's long-running interest in adolescence, gender, and national identity, using the village as a setting to work through American assumptions about German history and masculinity. The photographs mix staged portraits with landscape and interior views of the town, printed together without a strict documentary sequence.

Schorr has returned to German subjects across much of her career, and Neighbours / Nachbarn is one of the central books in that body of work, alongside titles like 8 Women and Jens F.