Thorsten Berndt
dal 12/4/2008 al 31/5/2008
Segnalato da
12/4/2008
Thorsten Berndt
Museum Langes Tannen, Uetersen
The exhibition shows about 30 double portraits of people who live in Germany between poverty and homelessness. Each photographed person is represented by two differently arranged pictures. On the one hand, there is the image of a person at his favorite place. On the other hand, an austere portrait puts the focus above all on the person's eyes and this close section denies any distraction through other details.
Thorsten Berndt continues his strictly conceptual photography for this exhibition. Each photographed person is represented by two differently arranged pictures. On the one hand, there is the image of a person at his favorite place, putting him in relation to his surroundings. On the other hand, an austere portrait puts the focus above all on the person's eyes and this close section denies any distraction through other details. The exhibition shows about 30 of these double portraits of people who live in Germany between poverty and homelessness. The photographs totally dispense with sensational details as often used in voyeuristic and journalistic photography. This project is supported by the Diakonische Werk Pinneberg.
Thorsten Berndt, born in 1961, after his training as a photographer and his studies of sociology and social and economic history he works as a photographer and cameraman, guest lecturer at the University for Applied Sciences Hamburg, in 2000 awarded with the first prize at the European photo competition "Human Work" for pictures from the project "Arbeitswelten-STORA-ENSO", in 1999 Pentiment scholarship with the American photographer Will McBride; aside from many public acquisitions by various museums, Thorsten Berndt published the books "Mehr als ein Augenblick" and "Helgoland - Ansichten einer Hochseeinsel", both Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster.
opening: Saturday, 12th April 2008, 4 pm
Museum Langes Tannen
Heidgrabener Straße 25436 Uetersen
open: Wed, Sat + Sun 10 am - 6 pm