This photographer returned to the formative years of his childhood and young adulthood, photographing Scouts troops across Germany
In sun-dappled scenes shot across the German countryside, boys and girls in navy Scout uniforms hike through the woods, pitch tents and lay on the grass under open skies. They wear striped kerchiefs and frayed patches of their national flag. In quiet moments, girls clasp hands and recline against one another; one Scout erupts in laughter as she holds another’s foot to be mercilessly tickled.
“But to me, there’s this intimacy that always resonated.” Wandering the path In Germany, the Scouting movement took off in 1909, a year after the publication of British Army officer Robert Baden-Powell’s book “Scouting for Boys,” which is the framework for the organization . But at that time, the country’s youth were already experiencing a revolution that brought them into nature.
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