Statement

The aim of my work is to produce photographic images that allow phenomena to make visible in all their sharpness and enable comparative vision. It is not about the image, but about the transformation of reality. It is up to the quiet observer to compare the information conveyed by the photographs with the visible or remembered reality and to draw conclusions. In a time of fast-paced life, continuous immersion in a subject of calm, concentration and distance is essential for me. In this way, the images are also predominantly created in a slow, analogous process. In my long-term photographic series, I question objects in terms of form, volume and dimension: from the machine giants of the open-cast lignite mines to the microcosm of filigree insects, plant seeds, etc. to the centuries-old knight and samurai armour that was so elaborately crafted for historical personalities. The process of creating the picture is always marked by the ambivalence between beauty and uncanniness of forms and structures. For me, photography is a medium of a deeper appropriation of the world that can raise questions about our lives and survival.