I would like to preface the project statement with the poem "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough".
The photographs were taken in various European cities such as Paris, Hamburg, Leipzig and Berlin. The works deal with the individual in public space: The photographs highlight the vulnerability of the individual, who seems isolated in an urban context. This results in a tension between the brutalist architecture - a habitat of machines - and the ephemeral-looking individuals. The fragility of human existence has become more present in our consciousness as a result of the pandemic in recent years, and habits in public space in particular have come under scrutiny. The photographs can certainly be understood as an attempt to analyse the conditio humana against the background of recent events in contemporary history.
In my approach, I strive for the works to develop a validity that goes beyond the concretely depicted scenery, i.e. to be able to give expression to the general in the particular. This ideal-typical claim can, of course, only be aspired to approximately and its pictorial realisation is often enough insufficient, yet it forms the foundation of my works. A simple but definite pictorial approach and formal clarity, which avoids overabundance and extremes, are the creative principles I pursue in the production of my photographs.
