On the photos submitted: The photos submitted are from various series which started during last two years: the opening photos are a part of a series of « bare trees ». A leafless lonely fruit tree growing besides a country road in northern Germany made me aware of the delicate, fractal shape of trees. Influenced by the Bechers’ approach, I tried to concentrate on their shape to distill character and individuality of each tree. The following series are a mixture of photos of flowers (studies in tonality and ephemerality), « nuggets of order » and finally photos from our workshop with Roger Ballen in Paris.
Our first assignment was still lives depicting opposite terms or concepts (photos 14,16,17). The second assignment were portraits with the aim to « find ourselves in the other » (photos 9-11). For both assignments we visited « Le Bloc » – a vibrant, colorful squat in Paris.
