In 2014, Hübner set out to explore the remote and corners of Jordan — hitchhiking, walking, and relying on the openness of strangers. Along the way, he encountered people whose lives and stories stirred his curiosity, sparking a desire to understand more than just place: he wanted to understand lives in motion.
Inspired by this experience, he chose not to return home to Germany by conventional means. Instead, he allowed the road to chart the way. Over the course of a long summer, he hitchhiked across nine countries in 82 days — tracing a loose, instinctive path through shifting landscapes and encounters, collecting fragments of a changing world.
He watched nature transform in both expected and surprising ways: from the pale, scorched stone deserts of the Middle East to the lush green valleys of Central Europe. With each border crossed, the land changed — as did the faces, the languages, the gestures, and the silences. At times, these transitions were subtle. At others, jarring and immediate. 

The journey began in Jordan, crossing into Israel and the West Bank, continuing by yacht to Cyprus and by ship across the Mediterranean to Turkey. From there, he traveled northward to Sofia, then doubled back to the Black Sea before continuing through Romania, Hungary, and Austria, finally reaching his hometown of Nümbrecht in western Germany.
These photographs and field notes document a slow, human-scale return — a journey recorded on 17 rolls of film and the pages of a worn notebook always kept close in his backpack.

In 2014, Hübner set out to explore the remote and corners of Jordan — hitchhiking, walking, and relying on the openness of strangers. Along the way, he encountered people whose lives and stories stirred his curiosity, sparking a desire to understand more than just place: he wanted to understand lives in motion. Inspired by this experience, he chose not to return home to Germany by conventional means. Instead, he allowed the road to chart the way. Over the course of a long summer, he hitchhiked across nine countries in 82 days — tracing a loose, instinctive path through shifting landscapes and encounters, collecting fragments of a changing world.