The contribution follows the assumption that emigration as a process of movement through space and time requires more than one image. The starting point for the considerations is the historical exile after 1933 in the time of National Socialism, in which we are dealing with analogue photography, often 35 mm cameras and sometimes large-format cameras. The principles of series and cycle are to be used to think anew about photography in the context of the exile movements of the 20th century.