Favorite Places

The photographs in Jürgen Chill’s Zellen series present an overhead view of prison cells, neatly organized by the prisoners themselves. In 2007, Jürgen Chill’s Zellen series won him the European Architectural Photography Prize in the “Favorite Places” category.

“A person’s favourite place is a place which can be chosen at will. The person’s freedom is presupposed. Freedom, however, is not granted to all. Those that do not have it must adjust to whatever opportunities exist and strive to create their own place.”
-Jürgen Chill