Kein Held
‘Kein Held’ is a personal photographic essay exploring the story of my grandfather Heinz Nieland who fought in the German Wehrmacht and became a prisoner of war in France during the Second World War. Whilst imprisoned, Heinz collected over 800 poems and created three books out of them. By combining my images with the poetry and with pictures my grandfather took during the war I aim to create a dialogue between the past and the present.
Heinz Nieland died in 1971 and I never got to know him. Realizing that during his imprisonment, he was the same age I am today, I was fascinated and tried to put together the puzzle pieces. I decided to travel through France to visit the former prison camps where Heinz was held captive.
By reading the poems and following his traces I tried to find a connection to him. Even though he was my age, I couldn’t relate to being a soldier and even less to fighting for a fascist regime. This is why it made me proud when I discovered documents stating that my great-grandfather was an anti fascist. It also added a complexity to the narrative I tried to include.“
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Website: stefan-nieland.com
Instagram: @stefan_nieland
Secret Garden
Nature is a sanctuary. Immersed in the natural world, we experience a pure force. It brings us in touch with something larger. We might even catch a glimpse of the essence of our existence. For me, being in nature opens me up to the mysteries of life. Wandering thought-free, I become aware of the energy in the trees, the waters, and even in the rocks. An energy in myself awakens as well, and unexplored parts of myself come to light. I find an opening to a hidden world, beyond the visible. A Secret Garden.
Using photographic techniques I give form to my vision of the world around me. I remove context and intensify with composition, framing, and color in a way that resembles a painting. It seems as though the images continue beyond what can be seen in the photo. The result is an abstract reality, with a sense of looking at something familiar in a new way.
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Website: michelleblancke.nl
Instagram: @michelleblanke
Constructed Landscapes
Constructed Landscapes is a collection of images made by using the Polaroid transfer method, each of which is a testimony to the beauty of nature and analog photography. In this series, the artist skillfully captures the essence of the landscape using instant photography, giving it a dreamlike character.
Thanks to the delicate transfer process, the images acquire a unique, ethereal character, creating a space where the boundary between memory, reality and imagination blurs. The imperfections of matter, unpredictable color changes and slight distortions that characterize emulsion transfers become integral elements of the final composition. Constructed landscapes is a project that was started during the pandemic. Unable to leave the house and take photos, the artist began experimenting with Polaroids, which did not turn out as well as she would have liked. Using her failed photos, she creates a “collage” by manipulating emulsion. These landscapes transport the viewer to places both known and imagined.
Just an Approximation of a Lost Oneness
When we were still coupled together as one, we were attached to each other and complete. And therefore happy. But then Zeus got jealous and split us apart. Ever since we’ve been alone, searching for our lost oneness.
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Website: kimcerrone.nl
Instagram: @kim_cerrone
Ko(lland)Ge(bhardt)
Two photographers: One from Austria, one partially from Switzerland and the south of Germany. Whilst the two are often working as a tandem (KoGe), usually the pieces they exhibit are installations, trying to combine painting, photography and somewhat sculptural works. This time they show pieces from their very own bodies of work, personal projects as different as they can be.
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Domenik Gebhardt
Website: domenikgebhardt.com
Instagram: @dra_gebhardt
Kevin Kolland
Website: kevinkolland.at
Instagram: @kevin_kolland
You gave me everything you are
Can we give all we are to another?Can we really trust another to be all they promise, be all we promise? We all seem to have so many wounds in the way, so much fear. I always imagined myself in relationships authentic to the core, I think I have achieved this…….we only create a world which is as big as our imagination? Or are we imagining full stop …..I worked with dancers and friends for this series. I wanted to make visible female friendships, show intimacy, show reservation, show life.
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Website: paularaegibson.com
Instagram: @paularaegibson_
Wasteland
The difference between the external and internal worlds is what we uniformly call consciousness. Externally, because of the difference between consciousness and existence, and because we believe in existence, we perceive the uncertainty of everything for a long time. Internally, because of the fluidity of consciousness and the fact that we are only three-dimensional creatures out of time, we can’t figure ourselves out. All my photographs, through narratives, try to explore this consciousness inwardly, about society, about the self, about death and love.
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Website: yolis.space
Instagram: @definitely_not_yoli
A reality in between
The photographic series ‘a reality in between’ focuses on the reality depicted in the photonegative, the translucent object, perceived as an intermediary phase, that contains the negative yet the original imprint of our captured reality.
But what if we were to consider this inverted state of reality as the authentic representation of reality itself? ‘A reality in between’ challenges the role of the photographic medium as a reliable representation of our reality by presenting and proposing an alternative and undefined space for the images to exist in.
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Website: lorehorre.be
Instagram: @lorehorre
Heartbeat of AI
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Website: jooeunbae.com
Instagram: @jooeunbae
The Dreamers
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Website: saatchiart.com/vietvan
