As a scholar and essayist I deal with photography in a critical and reflected way, quite deliberately exclusively theoretically. I reflect on the medium, its themes and merits.
Writing about photography is a question of reflection, knowledge, empathy, style, and skill, in short: an art in itself. Since 2012, I have maintained a German-language blog 'Fotografie im Kontext von Kunst, Gesellschaft und Architektur'. You can find my essays, reviews, lectures, exhibition openings there. In July 2022, my book 'Vom Reiz der Peripherie. Architektur und Fotografie' was published by Wasmuth & Zohlen.
Lecture "Bold Buildings, Homage to the Province. Vormwald's French Architecture Capriccio's Lecture on Gerhard Vormwald" at the Zephyr Mannheim on 17 May 2019
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Periphery shows different faces: Often it is only the result of careless planning. Sometimes, however, we encounter inner-city peripheries growing in a state of suspension in which the old can merge into the new - an intermediate realm of as yet unexploited possibilities far removed from the compulsion for aesthetic optimisation. Photography knows how to show things that we would not see without it. We are particularly touched by this in photographic works that are dedicated to what is actually familiar, the periphery, prefabricated buildings, cities in the Ruhr region, structurally weak rural areas, everyday life in Germany as seen by documentary photographers who experienced the world war as children. All this, with an excursus on the blind in photography, shows chapter by chapter the importance of architecturally designed or neglected spaces in our lives, how they determine our memories and the important role photography plays here. 'The allure of the periphery. Architecture and Photography' 131 p., 11 illustrations with photographs by Joachim Schumacher, Gerhard Vormwald, Inge Rambow, Jean Claude Mouton, Christian v. Steffelin, Philipp Meuser, Loredana Nemes, Ralf Schmerberg, Elger Esser, Julia Kissina, Karsten Hein, € 24.80 ISBN 978-3-8030-3420-5, Berlin 2022 available for order and in bookshops
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