Statement

For the transformation of world experience and world perception into art, my cameras are instruments of my subjective approach. Photography is my personal approach to the phenomena that occupy me. Of course, I want to see how something is photographed and ultimately how it looks in large form, but optimal light and perfect composition are not the only decisive criteria for me. Each work series has its own character, is photographed specifically and prepared specifically for museum exhibitions, e.g. in installations or projections. Depending on the subject, I work "documentary" with film material or reproduce found material, stage or work with abstraction. I investigate how worlds of ideas or scientific ambitions become reality in the form of spaces, constructions and objects. I find whispering theatricality in spaces in which time accumulates and narratives that have become attached to the edges and surfaces of objects. Or suddenly people become the focus of my attention and so they offer me views of terrain towards me I have never seen before. I take most photographs with an analog large-format or medium-format camera, whereby the negative or slide predetermine me what I ultimately can to see as the finished image. Bit by bit I "discover" the world which I find myself in by interpreting it with my artistic photography.