Open Theme nominee

everyone has ever thought about what it feels like to
to be buried alive. I experienced it. I was 13 minutes
completely paralyzed, deaf and blind, with no hope of rescue, ready
to die.
During a ski tour in Norway, I was spilled by an avalanche.
THE avalanche caught me without warning
behind, tore me, buried me. Then everything was dark and quiet. I
felt no pain, thought I could just get up and that
Shake off the snow. But I was completely enclosed, unable, too
to move only one finger a millimeter.
I had no idea how deep I was buried in the snow, I knew
not, whether the other participants of the ski tour were also spilled.
After several panic attacks, I accepted the situation. We all
have to die ...

Uschi Groos was born in Mittelhessen, Germany. After a commercial education she studied Photography at evening classes and many international workshops.
Since the 1990s she conducts one of Germany’s leading companies for kindergarden photography. „It“ is based on that kind of work. She lives in Germany and on La Gomera, where she runs an artist residency.