Yana Wernicke

Yana Wernicke is a German photographer based in a small town near Frankfurt. Yana’s book Companions is a radical act of kindness, quietly celebrating interspecies bonds.  The German book title is Weggefährten — this wonderful, slightly old-fashioned German word translates into ‘those who walk the path together’ — and Wernicke herself is a Weggefährte, too, as she follows the path of her subjects, capturing moments of tenderness, consciousness and joy.

Bodies comfortably leaning into each other, mutual respect, play — Yana proves that traditional livestock (that word!) can be our companions just as much as a cat or a dog.

The book — carefully designed, produced, and published by Loose Joints in 2023 — contains 52 tritone plates, and a silkscreened hardcover. 

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