Emerging from the darkness, their expressions are by turns solemn, expectant, reverent, pious, contemplative and hopeful. Captured in a moment of intense emotion and isolated from their surroundings, the figures depicted in the photographic series Goliath could be the protagonists of a religious scene. Yet however serene and beatific their poses and mannerisms may be, these men await a rapture of a decidedly non-religious kind, one more profane than sacred.”

Anne Kathrin Greiner