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A good friend of mine calls it “Schöne Müllhaufen”, beautiful trash-piles. Indeed, I’m quite fascinated by everything that falls apart and thus looks like an alien in our polished world. In a way it’s that borderline between a completely man-made world and nature – or call it chaos – claiming back its power. A majority of photographs I take uses a panoramic image format. To me this much more resembles the way I see – or should we say perceive – the world. Things can be put or even forced into relation with, and perspective to each other. The photographic eye of the camera can connect things that weren’t meant to be connected. Sometimes I feel that my camera is a shield that protects me from the world in front of me. The camera justifies my being-there. On the other hand, quite often I’m only there because I know my camera will protect me through its shield. It gives my presence a sense: I'm there to take pictures. |
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