When linking to Hanna Witte’s Nacht.Leben [“Night Life”], Peter Feldhaus noted that the work looked “very clean.” And he’s right, things are a bit too slick, a bit too commercial looking for my taste, but the series is nice nevertheless.
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Andrea Engelke’s Ohrenbetäubende Stille [deafening silence] portrays people suffering from chronic pain.
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“If Andre LeNotre, the architect of the gardens of Vaux le Vicomte and Versailles would present a design for a garden today, he would most certainly do this with form.z or any other 3-D graphic software. Detailed studies of the various elements might look like these pictures.” - Jürgen Bergbauer (via)
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Daniel Schumann’s Elisabeth und Wilhelm is a portrait of his grandparents. His grandmother died while he was away, and his grandfather is now suffering from dementia. The combination of portraiture and photography found in family albums creates a compelling project.
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“Between 1995 and 2007 more than 200,000 farmers committed suicide in India. […] In my view, this is an act of helplessness in a state of momentary despair: a call to society for help. Help not only for the farmer’s immediate family members - widowed wife, old and ailing parents, young children, but also for farming in general and for other farmers, like him.” - Verena Hanschke/Floriana Gavriel (thanks, Hugh!)
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Ulrich Gebert is one of those German photographers who are so conceptual that they don’t even have a website (or whose website is so obscure that I can’t find it). Regardless, even though very conceptual photography sometimes is a bit hard to digest, when well done - as it is in his case - it can be an incredibly rewarding experience. His current show at Winkleman Gallery is still up until February 13, 2010, so if you’re in New York here’s your chance to see the artist’s work. Everybody else might have to be happy with only seeing this pdf portfolio (which is quite nice actually).
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Melanie Vogel’s Jitter intentionally uses digital artifacts in the work. I’ve always wondered why photographers don’t do this more - might this be the digital equivalent of film toy-camera photography?
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Christian Hagemann’s In your face, God! appeals to the astronomer and critic in me: It shows crumpled images of cosmic objects, in which the flash-light reflections from the creases and crinkles look just like stars.
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When I’m in the car with my wife and we come across a pile of dirt or rubble or sand (or anything likes that), she likes to tease me by pointing out that there is a great photo opportunity. It is true that there are quite a few (male) photographers who have whole portfolios of these kinds of piles, such as Nils Kilnger (found today at Hippolyte Bayard). The website is in German only, but you can probably find your way around. The “Fields” are very nice, btw (even though the images on the website are a bit too small to do the photographs any justice).
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Sebastian Mölleken’s A40 portrays Germany’s Ruhr region along the A40 highway, using landscapes and portraits. Very impressive work!
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Colourizing b/w photographs is nothing new (behind me, on my book shelve, there’s a colourized tintype from the late 1800s), but you don’t see it that much any more these days. Florian Merkel has a portfolio of such work, with some rather beautiful images.
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Klaus Muenzner’s What’s Left Behind shows the Eastern German countryside, 20 years after the reunification. Also not to be missed: Homeless.
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Ute Friederike Schernau’s All About Eve (and Adam) examines the roles played (and supposed to be played) by women and men.
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About his einer Fred Hüning writes: “Pictures of my work ‘einer / the one’ tell a story of love. Also of the wish for a child together and of a mother´s permanent fear - on the basis of her own previous experiences - to lose this planned child again. And eventually a story of a painful 30 hour birth of a healthy child.”
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Daniel Barthmann’s “St. Pauli”, a part of Hamburg (in)famous for its red-light district.
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Malwine Rafalski’s Holon portrays people (and their environments) who moved back to Nature (c.f. Thoreau’s Walden).
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And another wonderful find by Peter: Rebecca Sampson’s portraits taken at an eating-disorder treatment center (“Aussehnsucht”). Very moving work, beautifully shot.
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The above image is from a photo project Torben Weiss shot in a psychiatric unit. Unfortunately, the website only has a few photos for each project (maybe there aren’t more?).
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Just a few weeks ago, the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall opening was celebrated, and we were subjected to the usual imagery again - mostly from the first few days. Norbert Enker’s Grenzfall has images taken over a much longer period of time (180 of them!), which show the Wall coming down/disappearing.
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Frank Schirrmeister’s Plain City shows us not only a Berlin (mostly) devoid of people, but also stays clear of the usual Berlin photo cliches.
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I rarely link to abstract photography, but Markus Bruckner’s is well worth the visit.
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It’s obvious what Heinrich Holtgreve’s Backstage is all about, and it’s not a pretty sight (the places, not the photos).
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I have no idea what Frank Höhle’s portraits mean, but they’re very well done - one of those cases where you wish you’d get a bit of background on the website. (via)
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Via thingsmagazine I found Martin Roemers’ photographs of Relics of the Cold War.
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Patrik Budenz’s Post Mortem (which is not for the queasy!) contains some, well, stunning imagery.
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There is no information about the series eo ipso on Lia Darjes’ website - so it’s up to us to make something of it.
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Stefan Hobmaier’s Dorfjugend portrays the lives of young people in small villages.
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Valerie Schmidt’s focus is on portraiture - a lot of good work, plus some that one could do without. The site is well worth the visit. (via)
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For those people craving to see typologies, here are Beatrix Reinhardt’s Coca Cola Houses in India. (via)
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Georg Küttinger’s landscapes:remixed is a fine example of how digital image technologies can be used in very creative ways. (via)
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Ralf Brück is a Becher/Ruff student, who, “unlike most of his peers” (his words), doesn’t shoot in series and who currently attempts to combine the Düsseldorf aesthetic with an American one.
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For her photography of German nuclear reactors, Anja Behrens uses very classical landscapes - works wonderfully (via)
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Frederike Wetzels’s “Hoeschviertel” shows what many Germans cities look like, once you get away from the centers and regardless of whether you are in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, or wherever else. (thanks, Tobias!)
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For the fans of typologies there now is Stefan Klink’s project Architecture of train stations in the Harz region (German language only page; but you don’t really need the text). It’s slightly amusing to see that some photography now seems to follow a pattern known from academia: Researchers focusing on some tiny aspect of a much larger field…
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This photo is not particularly representative of Kai-Uwe Schulte-Bunert’s work, but it shows a different side of a German photographer who sometimes seems to get a little bit lost in formalism.
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Jonas Holthaus’ Heimat-Raum shows Turkish tea rooms and entertainment centers in Germany.
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Those interested in architectural photography can find a lot of good images on Christoph Morlinghaus’s website.
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Found via The Sonic Blog: Gordon Welters’ documentary photography.
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“Anna Lehmann-Brauns discovers and invents spaces in which times seems to stand still, spaces ilike islands in a society moving ever faster, forgotten by the functional dynamics of the world outside. Time standing still opens up the pictures to a sensation of both timelessness and irreality.” (source)
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Jan Stradtmann’s Gardon of Eden might be the first financial-crisis photography I’ve seen that’s a bit more than just cliche photos of desperate brokers at the stock exchange.
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Typologies meet Andreas Gefeller in Jürgen Chill’s “Zellen” (“prison cells”). Find an interview with Jürgen over at Prison Photography.
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According to his website, Dietmar Busse “is currently working on his next book project, for which he asks people with great individual style to put on their best clothes and come to his Manhattan studio to have their portrait taken.”
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Tine Casper’s Parents-In-Law are self portraits with (a) parent(s) of the artist’s former partners.
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Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down (or actually was opened), resulting in the eventual (and surprisingly quick) creation of a unified Germany, which looks and behaves like a slightly larger West Germany. Dorothee Deiss’ “As If Nothing Happened” looks for traces of the Berlin Wall - of which not much remains - by taking photographs of where it once stood and by talking to people who lived in its vicinity. Dorothee showed me the dummy of her book - for the portraits you need to be able to read what the portrayed had to say - and I hope she will be able to find a publisher for it. It’s about time we got some German Vergangenheitsbewältigung (dealing with the past) that goes beyond self-congratulatory speeches by utterly mediocre politicians.
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Fritz Fabert’s Archäologie der Arbeit [Archeology of Work] presents “relics” from closed down businesses and hospitals. It’s such a simple idea, it works so well, and it’s such a fine alternative to giving the world yet another series of abandoned buildings (seriously, we’ve had more than enough of those!).
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Marc Baruth’s “The Prodigal Son” (“staged landscapes based on the wok of Peter Paul Rubens”) immediately brings Beate Gütschow’s work to mind.
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Susanne Katzenberg’s portfolio contains a variety of projects, which are all quite different, so picking one image was tricky.
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Lotte Reimann’s website is pretty bare bones, so it’s hard (if not impossible) to tell what they series are about; but the work is quite interesting.
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The Sonic Blog today featured the work of Mona Simon whose intensely beautiful “Transylvania” is not to be missed.
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“The Queen, a digitally modified photographic portrait of a women, taken in the style of classic renaissance paintings, is shown in a fine art environment, in a fine art manner. The aura of art is catalysed by special lighting, pictograms, state of the art presentation, security guards, and a red velvet rope to prevent physical contact.” - Frederik Busch
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