Contre-jour
The term contre-jour is or was used by photographers to refer to photographs taken with backlighting. I use it to refer to my images that are mounted in front of an LED area light. However, unlike images in slide boxes, which are always brightly lit, my works are intended to work both without and with backlighting, i.e. to show two sides of an image.
Habitat
Habitat, also called habitat in English, is a term used in biology; I have used it for a series of biopics showing people in an environment that has been chosen quite deliberately, whether to document their position or their tastes. The whole contre-jour series started with one image. I had found it in a newspaper, it shows J. Chirac as mayor of Paris. Where? Probably in his office (Amtsstube is out of the question as a term for this room!).
As with most contre-jour works, I have heavily altered the templates, neither the people nor the actual space should be recognisable.
Winners
here else can you find pictures of winners? Here!
Smoke
It still amazes me what mythological themes the Baroque resorted to, just to invent scenes that could be populated with maximum nudity. I wanted to add another aspect to this historical template, which takes up the theme of voyeurism in its title. The prototype of the voyeuristic viewer who looks at this picture. Always male, always with an apparent disinterest, distance and boredom.
The original by Ricci
Darling
A relevant magazine presents a collector couple. In this way, pictures are made that show the intentions of those depicted. The generous habitat and the couple's understanding of their roles. In addition, there was a small intervention by me, the painting in the background.
The resolution of the photomontage into a line graph printed on a plotter.
Towards new shores
These are the last pictures that are still populated with staff. A little play with the modes of the image.
High Flood
he series Flood was not created according to templates, the idea was rather to make pictures that should function similarly to an aquarium. With the difference that it should not run so peacefully inside.
Esso
Memory plays a major role in literature. In the visual arts, with the exception of photography, it plays rather no role. I don't mean painting, drawing, etc. from memory. I think everyone has images in their head that they think they remember very clearly. I don't mean photos that replace our memory, but scenes that have left a lasting impression. If we visualise these images, we who do not have a photographic memory realise that usually only a section has taken shape. The edges of the image, however, can only be roughly described.
Own moments remembered in pictures (similar to the scent of madeleines) become increasingly fragile the more closely we examine them (except for people with photographic memory).
