Heavenwards / Engel sind im Bild Heavenwards, Engel Sind Im Bild

Heavenwards is Nicolas Faure's answer to Rainer Maria Rilke's question in the First Duino Elegy: ''Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders?''

At first sight these photographs seem to show nothing but forests, trees, rivers and light, but in every picture there is something hiding - a human being, an animal, perhaps an angel, as the German subtitle suggests. There lies an uncertainty in Faure's pictures, about what is real and what will happen in the future. As Rilke puts it: ''Perhaps there remains some tree on a slope, that we can see again each day: there remains to us yesterday's street, and the thinned out loyalty of a habit that liked us, and so stayed, and never departed.''