Photographs

"A FEW SILENT STEPS"

First of all I want to state clearly that the credit for these works goes to Mr. Pedro Cabrita Reis, to at least 98%.

I was very much impressed by his exhibition and the discussion concerning housing and space it opens up.

In my pictures I tried to catch the feel of the exhibition just as I did with the Roman Signer Exhibition earlier in the year.

LIGHTS PERSONALITY

The Idea for these pictures came up in a very random shooting that was at first supposed to be a "normal" portrait shooting. Suddenly though I saw some props in the room and decided to use them. Some work followed at the Laptop and here are the results.

EXPERIENCE DANCING

The pictures have been taken with the help of two of my friends and were initially a very spontaneous thing. When editing I started to like the pictures a lot, mainly for her poses but also for the background and its diversity.

WHAT IS BCN

During a one week trip to Barcelona I had many opportunities to take pictures. But the only place that really struck me was a small museum that had a wonderfull light installation in place. Pictures were projected upon moving canvasas, whole rooms illuminated in the emission spectras of atoms. Everything was moving and allthough some things appeared to be constant or to repeat themselves, the sense of never ending movement could not be neglected. I tried to capture this in my pictures that also portray a wonderful girl that visited the exhibition with me. It seems as if even the spectator is taken upon a journey on which he never stops to move.

SKIN AND BONES

This series finds itself somewhere right on the boarder between beauty and ugliness. I used the natural body forms, especially those created through bones, and used them for this series. Although the forms and the build-up of the picture can awake a sense of beauty, especially through the degree of abstraction, there is always the image of bones. Bones being something we normally don't want to take a close look at.

The idea of the pictures is the daring to be on the brink between what causes repulsion and what causes attraction.

ROMAN SIGNER IMPRESSIONS

Lately there has been an exhibition of Roman Signers Work in Hamburg. After visiting it twice I decided to take my camera for a third go at it. It is hard to tell what the meaning or the initial intention was behind his works, most of it video art, many of them leave the visitor with more questions than answers. The pictures I took don't give any answers they are rather random and reflect the confusing atmosphere of the exhibition. Nevertheless they show a different views upon the moving picture and transform it into more of a painting than into a documentrary picture.

HENRY

This Series is probably the most natural of all. Henry is my Roommate at College, sharing 12 square metres with him for such a long time happened to produce some pictures of him.

He is very hard to describe as a character and even after living with him for such a long time I can't fully figure him out. It was important to catch this in the pictures through leaving out great bits in most of them.

I like the way in which he plays with his eyes and there is always this feeling of uncertainty.

The pictures are somehow intimate and still only reflect a tiny part of his personality.

LIGHT AND COLOUR

A selection of studies on light and colour. All these pictures are mainly experimental and combine different techniques.

To me they have no direct meaning or intention, they are supposed to be nothing else but colour, anyway I leave them open to interpretation.

THE BURDEN

This series has been originally designed for exhibition in the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2007. The idea was to represent personal freedom and restrictions in a photographic series.

The main character wears an ice crown, this on one hand gives him a sense of power and most of all reputation. This Ice crown can be seen as a symbol for the sacrifices that have to be made if one wants to be not only famous but recognized. It can also be interpreted as the burden and responisbilities associated with a position of power.

As the crown is made of ice it hurts the person who wears it.

In the Series we can see the development from a person who has everything (crown, girl, power, might) towards a self responsible, less powerful but more important free person.

FUTURE

These two pictures were again taken for the same exhibition as THE BURDEN.

Many adolescents in our society feel unsure about the future, they are blinded. The uncertainty future presents them with scares many of them and prevents them from going forward.

Many young adults feel left alone with the choices they have to make.

The future for most of them is a path full of the unknown and darkness it is a path on which they don't know what to expect neither how to act in order to clarify what lies in front of them.

This Series picks up these themes and interprets them in its own way.