When Oliver Klink photographed rural Europe's disappearing communities, many of them looked straight down the lens. Some might see that as a problem for documentary work, but I'd argue it's actually a sign of success

Black and white portrait of two elderly women in headscarves and heavy coats standing on stone steps before a tall wooden church spire, framed by bare tree branches.

Look through Oliver Klink's Where the Earth Remembers, on view throughout July on All About Photo's Solo Exhibition platform, and you'll soon see a pattern emerge.

The two children steadying a donkey loaded with firewood are looking straight at the camera. So are the couple standing in their stone doorway beside an old television set. So are the elderly women pressed up against an iron church gate strung with tinsel, and the pair walking arm in arm down a snow-covered village road.