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10_CSiekmeier_Knusperspur
“If the forest is the pride of Germany, then let’s talk about what actually happened in the forest.” (Collier Schorr)
How do I visualize the ‘darker side’ of landscape? I am looking at landscape as a counterpoint to the classic notion of its photographic genre. It’s a landscape in which killing and suffering are metaphorically present. A landscape that signifies death, decay and is characterized by an unresolved, fragmented relationship to mankind. A landscape abundantly filled with memories.
Photography and death have a long and intense history. Not only through early battlefield photographs has the documentation of suffering and horror found its place in the medium of photography.
My photographs want to become signifiers for the atrocities and horrors that continuously happen around us. However far removed we are; we live in dark times. As an artist I am a collaborator in the dialectic of aesthetic order, beauty and death.
10_CSiekmeier_Knusperspur
“If the forest is the pride of Germany, then let’s talk about what actually happened in the forest.” (Collier Schorr)
How do I visualize the ‘darker side’ of landscape? I am looking at landscape as a counterpoint to the classic notion of its photographic genre. It’s a landscape in which killing and suffering are metaphorically present. A landscape that signifies death, decay and is characterized by an unresolved, fragmented relationship to mankind. A landscape abundantly filled with memories.
Photography and death have a long and intense history. Not only through early battlefield photographs has the documentation of suffering and horror found its place in the medium of photography.
My photographs want to become signifiers for the atrocities and horrors that continuously happen around us. However far removed we are; we live in dark times. As an artist I am a collaborator in the dialectic of aesthetic order, beauty and death.