My name is Maxi Pfeil. I am a German artist and photographer currently living and working in Berlin. In June 2019 I successfully graduated the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, with a Bachelor of the Arts in Photography. In my work, I am interested in social tension, the struggle of every day life and the relations between us humans. Where do our emotions lay and how can we hold on to them?
Photography has always fascinated me for it’s aspects of time and reality. The medium enables me to capture and revisit life, within the increasingly fast pace of our modern society. To me beauty does not lay within the aesthetics of the photograph, but in the fragility of a moment and it’s duration.
Using traditional, photographic techniques I raise questions towards our current western civilization, that only the viewer can answer individually and for himself. By creating a gate between the past and the present, I try to draw a more complete picture of what it means to be human right now.
