In my series I examine the genius loci of the "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" in Berlin. The large field with its 2711 dark gray concrete blocks lets me imagine the dimension of the mass murder of 6 million Jewish people in its brutal totality. That anti-Semitic propaganda led to such a state-organized crime is inconceivable to me. The ice-cold systematics in planning and execution and the brutal cruelty of the executors are frightening. The caused sorrow is infinite. It is a deceptive feeling that there can be no more Jewish progroms today because anti-Semitism is spreading again.
After training in photography and an internship at Bayerischer Rundfunk, I worked for several years as a camera assistant. Over time, my visual language shifted toward abstraction. My work begins with reality and explores what can emerge when subject, perception, and camera interact. I work with Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) and developed my own technique, Remodel by Camera Movement (RCM), the basis of my Photographic Lyrical Abstraction. In my Emergographies, everyday things can develop an identity of their own. Together, they form my Photographic Wonder Room.
