Nowadays we are overrun by photographs and in daily life they seem to be all
around us. These images are massively discharged on us by the different
media.
Our eyes are hardly getting any rest because pictures controll the existence.
There are new ones coming out all the time succeeding each other with high
speed. This is made possible by our modern technique.
A reality that we recognise is shown to us and themes like identity and culture
are important. Contempory photography is a reflection of this. Through the
eyes of the photographer the world is looking at itself. One wants to catch that
special moment in a split second so we work with highly advanced equipment.
All this seems to match our modern lifestyle because we do like to act fast and
to have our situation under control.
I work with a pinhole camera.
Something which will be often seen as a prehistoric way of working. But by
using this black box with only this tiny little hole in it, I try to give my
photographs another gateway to reality. That small hole has a complete
different way of looking at the world then that our eyes do or the lens of our
camera does.
Since some time now I do try to make pictures where the feeling of loneliness
and emptiness dominates. A world in which expiring time is only visible. You
see the present and at the same time also the past.
The light will slowly affect the negative and so I never hurry (exposure times
are rather long). I gratefully use the coincidence instead of reducing it. Not
reality itself but the experience of reality is important as well as the emotion and
the experience of human perception.
Nature is my area of work. The "disconsolate" landscape provokes my
imagination. It causes a different notion of time and the association dominates.
In this way I try to dissociate my photographs from time and place in order to
emphasize some sort of poetic feeling. For the public there is an invation to
discover their own world of association.

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