"How do you actually see?"
That is a question Guido Klumpe has heard more often. The photo artist, born in 1971 in Osnabrück, Germany has lived in Hanover since 2006 and has been severely visually impaired since birth.
He is blind on the left side and has 25% vision on the right.
"For me, the world is a bit like an internet video with a low data rate. With a single face I recognise details, Faces in the crowd are ovals with dots and a line in them."
At 16, he discovers his passion for photography. It starts with concert photography for a youth centre, a little later he breathes new life into the photo lab there and gives workshops in image development. After graduating from high school, he travelled through Southeast Asia for a year and discovered the magic of street photography.
Intuitively, he captures the decisive moment in scenes of human interaction photographically, without even knowing the genre.
Today Guido Klumpe is a successful artist, his extraordinary photographs are shown and awarded internationally.
His work combines three genres that influence each other: street
photography, minimal photography and abstract photography. He like to
explore and push the boundary of genres.
He see his city as an urban landscape. A landscape made up of shapes, colors, reflections and light.
His style of street photography is characterized by a clear visual language, everything superfluous is left out. The overarching theme is the tension between urban architecture and its inhabitan