Statement

For me, photography is the suitable medium for my need for self-expression. It offers me the opportunity to develop a personal view of the world and thus make a contribution. Selecting sections from the chaos and disorder and fixing them as images seems to me to be a good strategy to gain control over the moment. I am interested in architecture, public space and interiors: places and squares that seem provisional and testify to their roots in our culture, which are ultimately traces of normal life. Through the use of normal focal lengths and mostly continuous depth of field, I strive for a documentary way of seeing that emphasizes the artificiality of the medium in its two-dimensionality. The supposedly familiar thus appears unreal - at best, things and places experience a charge that is stronger than reality. For me, this connection of subjective image design with recognizable reality constitutes tension, always in the awareness that the real is also only a construction and is not identical with what it depicts. In this context, I also like to work with the possibilities of staging: the inclusion of built models or the placement of images in the picture lead to new spaces of perception. Digital montages of set pieces and fragments of reality also allow new scenarios to emerge, reminiscent of a miniature wonderland and even more bizarre. What is decisive for me is the work on longer series - the combination of several pictures leads to a condensation of the connections, my confrontation with the world.