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Since I roughly concluded that photography is ‘dead’ - or not what it used to be before - I realized that I should not only focus on the practice of taking photographs.
Photography and art in general became to passive to me. To me the most urgent question in arts and science is; what does it offer the ordinary layman? Since we live in a continuous information society with infinite incentives the question is; how does it communicate and how does it picks your attention?
Nowadays documentary photography became so popular and diverse that it needs to be understood as complex, multifaceted and influenced by a range of different contexts. It is this complexity that I seek for, but to represent this through a series of themed chapters, grouped into familiar issues and concerns I need more theoretical input on what I actually talk about.
Therefore we could say my photographic practice is placed in the genre of contemporary documentary. Areas such as representation, objectivity/subjectivity, censorship, reflexivity and ethics are all explored historically and contextually using contemporary examples.
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Here one of my projects; The Blind Spot
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For some other work and the videos above I have a small tumblr page:
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