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Seasons: Experiments in Synchronicity
Four Seasons: Experiments in
Synchronicity is a series, which
I have started in Korea. In no other place so far, I have experienced
the seasons to such an extent. When I moved here last year in
late autumn, the beauty of the trees and the rich diverse colours
they had to offer impressed me. It was an experience I had to
capture with my camera. Out of a years work, I am presenting
#1.1 Spring, #1.2 Summer, #1.3 Autumn, #1.4 Winter to describe
visually the crispness and uniqueness of the four seasons in
Korea.
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 Urban
Architecture: Korea From a Reverse Angle
The second
series Urban Architecture: Korea
From a Reverse Angle has a very graphical
approach. It is very much about horizontal and vertical lines.
The Urban Architecture series itself, is a series that I have
started while I was in Hong Kong. Through the heights of the
buildings – rising vertically into the sky – and
the billboards crossing the streets horizontally, I have experienced
the city (despite its visual chaos in daily city life) as a
very graphical and structured city. This is what I decided to
capture with my camera. Finally I ended up with a series of
pictures being very unusual for Hong Kong itself, pictures which
also could have been taken somewhere else. This approach of
a Reverse Angle I ended up continuing and also extending in
Korea. #2.1, for example, looks very surreal almost like a counterfeit.
Through the lack of horizon and the density of the picture,
buildings seem to be made out of cardboard, being set up for
display at a real estate agency. Whereas #2.2 follows a similar
approach, in #2.3 a building tries to imitate not being a building
itself. In this picture a landscape painting covers a big facade
of heavy concrete. Therefore it visually opens up the horizon,
but the viewer might keep asking what the painting tries to
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 Landscapes:
Sightseeing for Texture
The idea behind
Landscapes: Sightseeing for Texture
is pretty much explained by the name of the series itself. I
started this series since I have become seriously interested
in travelling. I was asking myself why people being on holidays
keep taking pictures of the same images over and over again,
but in many cases don’t recognize nature’s real
beauty in terms of its texture. Therefore Landscapes: Sightseeing
for Texture is representing my vision as a traveller. The series’
motivation is to look for interesting textures, but by the same
token it turned into my very personal travelogue.
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 Window
Perspectives: Hidden Gaze of the Camera
Window
Perspectives: Hidden Gaze of the Camera
is a series of voyeuristic shots through windows. #4.1 and #4.2
sum up the idea of this series. In the one shot the view is
blocked – the camera cannot see what the viewer wants
to see. In the other shot the view is open and whoever is seen
does not realize being seen. The aesthetical approach is to
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Blue
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Landscapes: Pavement & Parking Sites
The series
Urban Landscapes: Pavement &
Parking Sites has a similar approach
to Landscapes: Sightseeing for
Texture. Contrary it is focusing
on landscapes in urban areas. Through the daily routine of crossings
streets and pavements, they look common, almost bland, to most
of us. This is why the generally just serve as an object enhancing
mobilization. Therefore the (geometrical & structural) beauty
they have to offer is hardly seen. The same counts for parking
sites. If they serve their function by being covered with cars,
the division lines, which construct a beautiful pattern of squares
and rectangles, are hidden. Whenever parking sites don’t
serve their accustomed function, I try to captures their geometric
shapes. I have worked on this series a couple of years by now,
and extended it to empty swimming pools and other public institutions
temporarily not serving their original function.
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 People's
Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm
I received
many (positive) complains^^ about my photography being merely
on urban space and architecture, e.g. often lacking any trace
of human existence. To finaly put an end to this flaw, I started
a series, which is exculsively focusing on the human side of
life. People's Instinctive Travels
and Paths of Rhythm is not only a
collection of visions I collect during my own travels, but is
also meant to show the camera-targeted objects themselves on
the move. As the series continues, similar patterns or paths
should become visible comparing the images. The characters themself
though are nonchained.
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