{"id":75143,"date":"2025-11-26T09:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&#038;p=75143"},"modified":"2026-09-26T07:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T05:29:38","slug":"gathering-not-hunting","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/collecting\/gathering-not-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Gathering, not hunting: a new story of humankind"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"cover--lead-in has-spacing--m\">\r\n\r\n    \r\n    <div class=\"cover--lead-in__content typo--tiempos\">\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"entry-categories\">\n\t<a class=\"post__tag\" href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine-category\/collecting\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Collecting<\/a><\/div>\r\n        <h2 class=\"cover--lead-in__headline headline-size--s\">\r\n            Gathering, not hunting: a new story of humankind        <\/h2>\r\n\r\n                    <div class=\"cover--lead-in__text\">\r\n                <p>What if humanity began not with the spear but with the bag? Ursula K. Le Guin turns history on its head and makes the bag a symbol of what it means to be human.<br \/>\nBy <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/antonia-bretschkow\/\">Antonia Bretschkow<\/a><\/strong> (text) and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/simon-deppe\/\">Simon Deppe<\/a><\/strong> (photos)<\/p>\n            <\/div>\r\n        \r\n                    <div class=\"cover--lead-in__author\">\r\n                \r\n                    \r\n                            <figure class=\"cover--lead-in__author__image\">\r\n\r\n                                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/antonia-bretschkow\/\" target=\"\">\r\n                                \r\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\r\n                                    src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia_Bretschkow_klein-68x68.jpg\"\r\n                                    srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia_Bretschkow_klein-68x68.jpg 68w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia_Bretschkow_klein-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia_Bretschkow_klein-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia_Bretschkow_klein-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia_Bretschkow_klein-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia_Bretschkow_klein-52x52.jpg 52w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia_Bretschkow_klein-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Antonia_Bretschkow_klein.jpg 500w\"\r\n                                    width=\"68\"\r\n                                    height=\"68\"\r\n                                    alt=\"\"\r\n                                \/>\r\n\r\n                                                                    <\/a>\r\n                                \r\n                            <\/figure>\r\n\r\n                                                <figure class=\"cover--lead-in__author__image\">\r\n                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/simon-deppe\/\">\r\n                            \r\n                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"68\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simon-Deppe-68x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-image-portrait--large size-image-portrait--large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simon-Deppe-68x68.jpg 68w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simon-Deppe-52x52.jpg 52w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simon-Deppe.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 68px) 100vw, 68px\" \/>\r\n                                                            <\/a>\r\n                                                    <\/figure>\r\n                    \r\n                                <\/div><!-- .cover--lead-in__author -->\r\n        \r\n    <\/div><!-- .cover--lead-in__content -->\r\n\r\n    \r\n        <figure class=\"cover--lead-in__image cover--lead-in__media cover--lead-in__media--image\">\r\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\r\n                src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_19.jpg\"\r\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_19.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_19-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_19-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_19-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_19-1050x701.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_19-670x447.jpg 670w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_19-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_19-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_19-150x100.jpg 150w\"\r\n                width=\"1200\"\r\n                height=\"801\"\r\n                alt=\"\"\r\n                style=\"object-position: 100% 66%\"\r\n            \/>\r\n        <\/figure>\r\n\r\n        \r\n    \r\n<\/div><!-- .cover--lead-in -->\r\n\r\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--m\"><strong>What if the story of humankind<\/strong> were the story of a bag? If we didn&#8217;t tell it through daggers, knives and swords, perhaps it wouldn&#8217;t be the story of the heroic hunter but of the woman who gathered. Perhaps it would be about curves instead of points \u2013 about containers whose purpose is to keep rather than to destroy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"headline-block has-spacing--xs\">\n\n        <h2 class=\"post__headline\">In the beginning was the bag<\/h2>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n\n    \n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--m\"><strong>At least, that is what<\/strong> the author Ursula K. Le Guin suggests in her essay \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/think-oya.de\/buch\/am-anfang-war-der-beutel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction<\/a>\u2019. She draws on the feminist writer Elizabeth Fisher, who argues in her book \u2018Woman&#8217;s Creation: Sexual Evolution and the Shaping of Society\u2019 that one of the first human tools was the container. In the beginning was the bag. People created artificial spaces that could be filled: baskets, nets, slings. They made it possible to carry more than would fit in two hands \u2013 everything people lived on in Palaeolithic, Neolithic and prehistoric times: seeds, roots, sprouts, shoots, leaves, nuts. So why is the story we tell about our history so pointed and brutal? Why isn&#8217;t it round?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"devider has-spacing--none\">\n    <hr>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n    \n    <div id=\"quote-block_83ac4ac10804ac70dd273308a7a55c1f\" class=\"block-quote has-spacing--m\">\n        <figure class=\"quote\">\n            <blockquote>\n                <p><strong>So why is the story we tell about our history<\/strong> so pointed and brutal? Why isn&#8217;t it round?<\/p>\n            <\/blockquote>\n\n            <figcaption>\n\n                            <span><\/span>\n            <\/figcaption>\n            \n        <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--m\">At school we cram dates and facts about war and violence. Absolutism, the French Revolution, the First World War, the Second World War, the Holocaust, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, 9\/11. Not that these things don&#8217;t matter \u2013 and it would certainly do us good to stop turning a blind eye to the colonial era, too. But is that really all? My history teacher could easily have told us something about how children were brought up in the Middle Ages, about what music people liked, about their fears and worries, about what they ate. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d have paid more attention in class.<\/p>\n\n\n \n\n<div class=\"photo-grid grid-layout--2col-2 has-spacing--m\">\n\n            \n\n            <div class=\"photo-grid__image\">\n\n                <figure>\n\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \n                        src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-a-768x1151.jpg\" \n                        srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-a-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-a-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-a-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-a-670x1004.jpg 670w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-a-420x629.jpg 420w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-a-350x524.jpg 350w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-a-300x449.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-a-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-a.jpg 801w\" \n                        width=\"768\"  \n                        height=\"1151\" \n                        alt=\"A willow branch, lit harshly by flash, hangs down into the centre of the frame from above. The background is very dark and shows a lake, the shadows of a few trees and an evening sky with reddish clouds. Gathering, not hunting.\"  \n                    \/>\n\n                    \n                                            <figcaption class=\"photo-grid__image__caption--soehne\"><p><strong>The first human<\/strong> tool was not the knife but the container.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n                    \n                <\/figure>\n\n            <\/div><!-- photo-grid__image -->    \n\n\n            \n\n                    \n                \n\n            <div class=\"photo-grid__image\">\n\n                <figure>\n\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \n                        src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-b-768x1151.jpg\" \n                        srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-b-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-b-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-b-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-b-670x1004.jpg 670w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-b-420x629.jpg 420w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-b-350x524.jpg 350w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-b-300x449.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-b-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_03-b.jpg 801w\" \n                        width=\"768\"  \n                        height=\"1151\" \n                        alt=\"A plant, lit harshly by flash, reaches up into the centre of the frame from below. The background is very dark and shows a lake, the shadows of a few trees and an evening sky with reddish clouds. Gathering, not hunting.\"  \n                    \/>\n\n                    \n                                            <figcaption class=\"photo-grid__image__caption--soehne\"><p><strong>People gathered plants<\/strong> in baskets, nets and slings to feed themselves.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n                    \n                <\/figure>\n\n            <\/div><!-- photo-grid__image -->    \n\n\n            \n\n            \n<\/div>\n\n\n \n\n    <div id=\"accordion-block_53c4b7a441f4daa213236b5c0c16e4fb\" class=\"accordion has-spacing--m\">\n        <div class=\"accordion__title\">\n            <h5>About the photographs in this piece<\/h5>\n            <span><\/span>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"accordion__text\">\n         <p><strong>Simon Deppe describes<\/strong> his work on the project \u2018Carrier Bag\u2019, which draws on Ursula K. Le Guin&#8217;s essay \u2018The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction\u2019, like this: \u2018As a photographer, I can choose which practice to follow: hunting or gathering. With that idea in my luggage, I spend night after night fighting my way through the undergrowth of the woods around Hannover. I bring light to places where there is normally none. The light is the tool: the carrier bag that gathers things that carry meaning. It is a photographic experience and, at the same time, a fundamentally human one: gathering, taking possession, telling stories.<\/p>\n<p>Over three weeks, I get closer to the idea of the carrier bag. There&#8217;s something satisfying about the constant search for the next object. I come face to face with the practice that tells us where we come from. And I learn something about the urge to collect and sort. Night after night, my carrier bag fills up as if by itself. At some point I spread all the photos out in front of me, sort them, let them talk to each other and ask myself: is this series more than a collection of overexposed plants?\u2019<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"headline-block has-spacing--xs\">\n\n        <h2 class=\"post__headline\">Of sabre-toothed tigers, mammoths and oats<\/h2>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n\n    \n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--default\"><strong>Attack and defence<\/strong> are also what my doctors like to talk about whenever they advise me, yet again, to reduce my stress. Out come the wild animals and sharp teeth: if you never get any rest in everyday life, your body is in a permanent state of alarm. That used to help humans when they had to flee from a sabre-toothed tiger \u2013 but being in flight mode all the time is, unfortunately, not healthy. Fair enough. But seriously, the sabre-toothed tiger? If Ursula K. Le Guin is to be believed, humans and sabre-toothed tigers didn&#8217;t actually run into each other all that often. After all, people lived mainly on plants. They rarely went hunting, and when they did, it was more for the adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--m\">Perhaps we&#8217;ve all watched too much Ice Age \u2013 otherwise why do we still tell stories about sabre-toothed tigers and mammoths? Ursula K. Le Guin has an answer: a day spent gathering simply doesn&#8217;t make a gripping tale. Prising one wild-oat seed from its husk, then another, and another, and another; scratching your gnat bites; laughing at a joke from Ool; wandering down to the creek for a drink and watching the newts for a while; then finding a new patch of oats\u2026 Yawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"devider has-spacing--none\">\n    <hr>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n    \n    <div id=\"quote-block_f58fb6669dafbf214ca46b2b069cc11a\" class=\"block-quote has-spacing--m\">\n        <figure class=\"quote\">\n            <blockquote>\n                <p><strong>It is hard to tell<\/strong> a really gripping tale of how I wrested a wild-oat seed from its husk, and then another, and then another<\/p>\n            <\/blockquote>\n\n            <figcaption>\n\n                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"portrait--inline\" src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ursula_Le_Guin_3551195631_b_cropped-52x52.jpg\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                            <span>Ursula K. Le Guin<\/span>\n            <\/figcaption>\n            \n        <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--m\">Of course it&#8217;s more gripping when Ool tells of his daring fight with the mammoth \u2013 how he drove his spear deep into its huge flank, was almost gored by a tusk and rolled in the animal&#8217;s blood before finally killing it. After all, \u2018The Old Man and the Sea\u2019, a classic of literature, only works as a story because Hemingway sends his hero into battle with a giant fish. Who would sit through a hundred pages about an average fisherman&#8217;s daily routine?<\/p>\n\n\n \n\n<div class=\"photo-grid grid-layout--2col-4 has-spacing--m\">\n\n            \n\n            <div class=\"photo-grid__image\">\n\n                <figure>\n\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \n                        src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-a-768x1151.jpg\" \n                        srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-a-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-a-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-a-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-a-670x1004.jpg 670w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-a-420x629.jpg 420w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-a-350x524.jpg 350w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-a-300x449.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-a-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-a.jpg 801w\" \n                        width=\"768\"  \n                        height=\"1151\" \n                        alt=\"A hand, lit harshly by flash, reaches into the top of the frame, index finger pointing down. Flash-lit drops of water fall from the finger. The background is black except for the bottom edge, which shows the surface of the water with leaves beneath it. Gathering, not hunting.\"  \n                    \/>\n\n                    \n                                            <figcaption class=\"photo-grid__image__caption--soehne\"><p><strong>It\u2019s easier<\/strong> to tell stories about hunting than about gathering.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n                    \n                <\/figure>\n\n            <\/div><!-- photo-grid__image -->    \n\n\n            \n\n                    \n                \n\n            <div class=\"photo-grid__image\">\n\n                <figure>\n\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \n                        src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-b-768x1151.jpg\" \n                        srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-b-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-b-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-b-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-b-670x1004.jpg 670w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-b-420x629.jpg 420w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-b-350x524.jpg 350w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-b-300x449.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-b-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_18-b.jpg 801w\" \n                        width=\"768\"  \n                        height=\"1151\" \n                        alt=\"A flash-lit hand at the top edge of the frame holds a round, brightly lit object that looks like an aluminium plate. Glowing drops of water fall from the plate onto the surface of the water. The background is dark: a few grasses, the distant shadows of trees, and the water along the bottom edge. Gathering, not hunting.\"  \n                    \/>\n\n                    \n                                            <figcaption class=\"photo-grid__image__caption--soehne\"><p><strong>But what would<\/strong> a story of humankind look like if it were round rather than pointed?<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n                    \n                <\/figure>\n\n            <\/div><!-- photo-grid__image -->    \n\n\n            \n\n            \n<\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"headline-block has-spacing--xs\">\n\n        <h2 class=\"post__headline\">The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction<\/h2>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n\n    \n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--default\"><strong>Even so, Ursula K. Le Guin,<\/strong> who died in 2018, was a champion of \u2018the carrier bag theory of fiction\u2019 \u2013 a cyclical, rounded kind of narrative that doesn&#8217;t put conflict at its centre. In her work, much of it science fiction, she deliberately tried to free herself from the male hero&#8217;s journey as a narrative technique \u2013 and it was only by doing so that she discovered her own humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--m\">If becoming human means making a weapon to kill with, she writes in her essay, then she was either a thoroughly defective human being or not human at all. So she went looking for proof of her humanity \u2013 and discovered the round: if it is a human thing to put something useful into a bag, a basket or a curl of bark, then she is human after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"devider has-spacing--none\">\n    <hr>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n    \n    <div id=\"quote-block_bfadfdd8c565029587316b683432dfa7\" class=\"block-quote has-spacing--m\">\n        <figure class=\"quote\">\n            <blockquote>\n                <p><strong>So she went looking <\/strong>for proof of her humanity \u2013 and discovered the round.<\/p>\n            <\/blockquote>\n\n            <figcaption>\n\n                            <span><\/span>\n            <\/figcaption>\n            \n        <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--default\">If it is gathering that makes women \u2013 and ultimately people of every gender \u2013 human, why not tell stories about it? The bag points to a different kind of life, one that needn&#8217;t resemble the heroic hunter&#8217;s journey but may follow the cyclical process of the gatherer: she picks things up, carries them and keeps them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"pinned-block has-spacing--m\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"pinned-block__column--left\">\n    \n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--m\">\u2018The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction\u2019 is more than the outline of a new literary genre. Ursula K. Le Guin&#8217;s essay is a plea for writing, thinking and acting beyond utopias of growth and progress. It sketches a creative life without the urge to dominate anything or anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"pinned-block__column--right\">\n    \n    <figure class=\"block-photo post__image--half-center has-spacing--xs no-title\">\n\n        <div class=\"post__image__container\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \n                src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_12-a-768x1151.jpg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_12-a-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_12-a-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_12-a-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_12-a-670x1004.jpg 670w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_12-a-420x629.jpg 420w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_12-a-350x524.jpg 350w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_12-a-300x449.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_12-a-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deppe_Simon_12-a.jpg 801w\"\n                width=\"768\" \n                height=\"1151\"\n                alt=\"A person, or rather their silhouette, completely overexposed by flash, standing among grasses that are also blown out by the flash. In the foreground, a blade of grass curves from the bottom left corner up over the person to the right. Above the person fly white, flash-lit spheres \u2013 probably berries thrown into the air. The top of the frame is black. Gathering, not hunting.\" \n            \/>\n            \n                    <\/div><!-- post__image__container -->\n\n        \n    <\/figure><!-- post__image -->\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph is-style-typo--soehne has-spacing--none\"><strong>\u2018The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction\u2019<\/strong> by Ursula K. Le Guin is a feminist blueprint for a creative life without domination.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-spacing--default has-spacing--default\">\n<div class=\"devider has-spacing--none\">\n    <hr>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n\n    <div id=\"lead-in-block_bf2c3e359e94c872924d52dc61be8813\" class=\"block-lead-in typo--default font-size--xl has-spacing--s width--default\">\n        <p><strong>Recommended by the editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"teaser-grid grid-layout--3col has-spacing--s width--inline\">\r\n\r\n            \r\n                <article class=\"post-teaser\">\r\n\r\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/collecting\/the-worlds-largest-playmobil-collection\/\" rel=\"permalink\">\r\n\r\n                        <div class=\"post-teaser__content\">\r\n\r\n                            <span class=\"entry-categories\">Collecting<\/span>\r\n                            <h3 class=\"post-teaser__headline\">\r\n                                The world&#8217;s largest Playmobil collection: 400,000 figures                            <\/h3>\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"post-teaser__excerpt\">\r\n                                <p>It all began in a child&#8217;s bedroom \u2013 today Oliver Schaffer owns the world&#8217;s largest Playmobil collection, with more than 400,000 figures. A visit to his high-bay warehouse.<\/p>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n                        <\/div><!-- .post-teaser__content -->\r\n\r\n\r\n                        \r\n                            <figure class=\"post-teaser__image\">\r\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \r\n                                    src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-768x614.jpg\" \r\n                                    srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-1920x1536.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-1400x1120.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-1050x840.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-670x536.jpg 670w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-420x336.jpg 420w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-350x280.jpg 350w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/20241212_FR87726-Playmobilbauer-\u00a9Felix-Kaspar-Rosic_4000px.jpg 2000w\" \r\n                                    width=\"768\"  \r\n                                    height=\"614\" \r\n                                    alt=\"\"\r\n                                \/>\r\n                            <\/figure>\r\n\r\n                        \r\n                    \r\n                    <\/a>\r\n\r\n                <\/article><!--- .post-teaser-->\r\n\r\n            \r\n                <article class=\"post-teaser\">\r\n\r\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/masculinity\/being-gay-is-not-a-choice\/\" rel=\"permalink\">\r\n\r\n                        <div class=\"post-teaser__content\">\r\n\r\n                            <span class=\"entry-categories\">Masculinity<\/span>\r\n                            <h3 class=\"post-teaser__headline\">\r\n                                \u2018Being gay is not a choice\u2019                            <\/h3>\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"post-teaser__excerpt\">\r\n                                <p>Dirk and Thomas came out to their families only recently. 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Today Axel Reitz works in extremism prevention.<\/p>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n                        <\/div><!-- .post-teaser__content -->\r\n\r\n\r\n                        \r\n                            <figure class=\"post-teaser__image\">\r\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \r\n                                    src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Janek-Stempel_AxelReitz-1317-768x512.jpg\" \r\n                                    srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Janek-Stempel_AxelReitz-1317-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Janek-Stempel_AxelReitz-1317-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Janek-Stempel_AxelReitz-1317-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Janek-Stempel_AxelReitz-1317-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, 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<div class=\"post-teaser__excerpt\">\r\n                                <p>Jonas Kako documents the water crisis along the Colorado River.<\/p>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n                        <\/div><!-- .post-teaser__content -->\r\n\r\n\r\n                        \r\n                            <figure class=\"post-teaser__image\">\r\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \r\n                                    src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/0009-colorado-jonas-kako-1600px-768x512.jpg\" \r\n                                    srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/0009-colorado-jonas-kako-1600px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/0009-colorado-jonas-kako-1600px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/0009-colorado-jonas-kako-1600px-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/0009-colorado-jonas-kako-1600px-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/0009-colorado-jonas-kako-1600px-1400x934.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/0009-colorado-jonas-kako-1600px-1050x700.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/0009-colorado-jonas-kako-1600px-670x447.jpg 670w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/0009-colorado-jonas-kako-1600px-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/0009-colorado-jonas-kako-1600px-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/0009-colorado-jonas-kako-1600px.jpg 1600w\" \r\n                                    width=\"768\"  \r\n                                    height=\"512\" \r\n                                    alt=\"Sediment deposits on truck tyres on the shore of Lake Powell, photographed by Jonas Kako.\"\r\n                                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        <\/div>\r\n\r\n                        <\/div><!-- .post-teaser__content -->\r\n\r\n\r\n                        \r\n                            <figure class=\"post-teaser__image\">\r\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \r\n                                    src=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heitmann-HidingfromBabaYaga-21-768x614.jpg\" \r\n                                    srcset=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heitmann-HidingfromBabaYaga-21-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heitmann-HidingfromBabaYaga-21-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heitmann-HidingfromBabaYaga-21-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heitmann-HidingfromBabaYaga-21-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Heitmann-HidingfromBabaYaga-21-1400x1120.jpg 1400w, 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