Statement

Everything can be captured photographically, anything can become topic: society, man, architecture, landscape. No other medium mirrors the essence of situations like documentation photography: to compress, to condense, to point through the specific lens of photography. To this day, a central question grappling with the approach to documentary photography circles around on the reality character of the photographed picture. The extension of the photographic spectrum by digital photography, its new abilities and their deployment in mass media further fuelled this discussion. Today it seems to be decisive which strategy a photographer peruses, how a topic is approached aesthetically and within its context, how the topic of this photographic conflict is grounded. In the deluge of media captions, the singular picture seems to have been diminished in meaning and authenticity. Moreover, documentary photography now has to react to the already existing media picturescape by purveying a much deeper, more subjective perspective. The conscious seeing, the reflection of pictures, its act of making the picture and of mentoring the picture for me is an important component of my work and through that simultaneously forms my picturescape.