ABOUT
I am a photographer, researcher and digital print maker, based in Berlin, Germany. I look at the cultural context of landscape and architecture in my photography. I am open for commissions, collaborations and book projects.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
I make photographs. My subject is the cultural context of landscape and architecture. I am particularly interested in the traces we humans leave in our environment. Those are created indirectly through our global influence and at the same time directly through the local design of our surroundings. Although there are rarely any people in my photographs, they are always part of what is depicted as invisible agents.
My works are created as project series on a specific theme. My thematic focus develops in the examination of a place, whether it is a landscape, an urban area or a building. For the project work I use an ethnographic approach focused on observation. Photographs are created in the repeated photographic examination of the physical place, whereby I draw on a view trained by my studies of architecture. With the parallel research of the background of the observed landscape I can give my projects the necessary context in accompanying texts.
The outcome is a series of reflective images that approach a certain aspect of a place. I work out the photographs in my studio and often superimpose several digital files in one photograph to maintain better control over the quality of the presentation. Making my own pigment prints is an important part of my practice and up to a certain size I produce my works in signed editions myself.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Off-Centre Festival, 27 October 2019 – 27 November 2019, Nottingham, UK – Independent People
Harley Open 2017, 24 June 2017 – 20 August 2017, The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Group Exhibition
East Meets West 2.0, 6 October 2016 – 6 January 2017, The Waterhall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Group Exhibition
East Meets West 2.0, 2 July 2016 – 4 Sept 2016, QUAD, Derby, UK – Group Exhibition
ShutterHub Open 2016, 24 Jun 2016 – 24 July 2016, Cambridge, UK – Group Exhibition
Nottingham Castle Open 2015, Sept 19 2015 – Nov 6 2015, Nottingham, UK – Group Exhibition
Durban-Corbiéres, French Living, Dec 1 2014 – Sept 30 2015, Nottingham, UK
Shutter Hub Place Exhibition 2014, Salt&Pegram, Jul 11 – Sept 4 2014, London, UK – Group Exhibition
Shutter Hub Open 2014, Wisbech & Fenland Museum, Jun 13 to Jul 12 2014, Wisbech, UK – Group Exhibition
Onward Compé 2014, Project Basho, Mar 1 – Apr 27 2014, Philadelphia, USA – Group Exhibition
COMISSION
Thinking of Europe, 23 February 2018, The Royal Centre, Nottingham
AWARDS
The Judge’s Commendation for Main Pool, The Harley Open 2017
Finalist for Best of Photography 2015, Photographer’s Forum
Finalist for ONWARD Compe ’14, 2014
PUBLICATIONS
Beechdale Swimming Baths – Modernist Magazine, Issue 24, Autumn 2017
Lakeshore Drive – http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/6310332-lake-shore-drive
Interview in Inside Artists – http://issuu.com/insideartists/docs/inside_artists_-_issue_2/29?e=15259677/13864685
Durban-Corbiéres – http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/5529654-durban-corbi-res
Book review of Durban-Corbiëres – https://shutterhub.org.uk/durban-corbieres-by-holger-martin-and-wayne-burrows/
EDUCATION
PhD, University College London, UK (The Bartlett School of Architecture) – Mixed Reality Architecture, 2000 – 2007
Masters of Architecture, The University of Nottingham, UK – Architecture – On the Threshold between Space and Cyberspace, 1998 – 1999
Diploma in Architecture, The University of Nottingham, UK – Interface to Cyberspace: A Dwelling Place for Tele-workers, 1994 – 1998
Vordiplom Architektur, Fachhochschule Koblenz, DE, 1992 – 1994
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Seminar Project Development at the Gesellschaft für Humanistische Fotografie, Berlin, 2019
Seminar The Art Market in Berlin at the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler, Berlin, 2019
Portfolio Review at the Gesellschaft für Humanistische Fotografie, Berlin, 2019
Portrait Masterclass with Mirjana Vrbaški, Berlin, 2019
East meets West portfolio review, Birmingham, UK, 2016
Artist Surgery, Nottingham, UK, 2016
Magnum Photo Symposium, Birmingham, UK, 2014
Grain Portfolio Development Day at the Grain Photography Hub, Birmingham, UK. 2014
Format Portfolio Review, Derby, UK, 2014
Writing for Photographers at Redeye, Manchester, UK, 2014
Screens in the Wild: Urban Screens, which acted as Photobooths (Work at the Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham, UK), 2011-2014
Photography Career Development Weekend at Redeye, Birmingham, UK, 2013
Format Portfolio Review, Derby, UK, 2013
Development of my project-based and reflective practice in Photography, from 2013
Hybrid Spatial Topologies: Architecture extended through camera views (Work at the Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham, UK), 2002 – 2009
Senior Research Fellow at the Mixed Reality Lab, Universität Nottingham – Research (Society, Interaction und Architecture), Erfahrung in project development und project development, 2008 – 2018
Augurscope: Large format camera as interface zu virtual worlds (at the Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham, UK), 2001 – 2005
Research Fellow at the Mixed Reality Lab, Universität Nottingham, UK, 1999 – 2008
Self-funded travel photography e.g. in Japan, Patagonia und Cuba, 1995 – 2006
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