The project O Tannenbaum (O Christmas tree) captures the peculiar journey of Christmas trees after the holiday season — tossed out of windows, left inside broken ATMs, propped on traffic signs, or even carried on the back of an elephant.
The pictures were taken in Berlin over the past two years.

No one gets broken up with as violently as the Christmas tree. One minute it was loved, decorated, and sung about, the center of attention on Christmas Eve – and suddenly, three days later, it's lying on the side of the road, urinated on by the neighbor's dog. Or it's been demolished as a scratching post in a lion's cage. Or, even more depressing, it's dangling upside down from a railway bridge for months, dying of thirst. And yet it hasn't done anything wrong, just plucked a few needles and gotten in the way.

“They’re coldly dismissed. A brief, almost pompous climax, and then you’re thrown out the window.”
- Nikita Teryoshin

The artist noticed the abandoned fir trees when a Russian friend mentioned them to him. He had fled Moscow to escape Putin's war and was surprised that Christmas trees were lying around everywhere in Berlin. In Moscow, he said, they were picked up very quickly and in an orderly manner. So are the thousands of Christmas trees piling up on Berlin's streets actually a sign of a vibrant democracy, where littering doesn't carry severe penalties? Or are they simply signs of neglect? One of the first trees Teryoshin photographed was in a blown-up safe left behind by thieves.