Bernd Kleinheisterkamp researches in his work SIEDLUNG the apparent resemblance and uniformity of the settlement buildings in the north-side of Essen. At first sight they are pure functional buildings, without any architectural highlight – totaly interchangeble und devoid of locality.
The photos open up spacial relations ...

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Picture without words. No context but a geographical...

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"Stills and Things" deals with the appearance of things.
"Stills" plays with the variety of possible ensembles that we identify and accept as a authentic, evident situation. Something that seems to make sense in its limits of time and context.

"Things" looks for the undeniable magic inherited in all things. The useless effort to define them, to capture their essence. And still - it isn't useless to give another try.

How was it going In Rome? Did you dodge the fair there, too? And how did it happen that you did your latest work there?

Yes, I have to admit: I didn‘t pay for a lot of tickets. But I was lucky they didn‘t catch me. I was there for a week. It all started out with a very personal story: The idea was to go to Rome to see my girlfriend for few days. But then the moment before I took off from Germany I got a call from her where she asked me not to come. But I decided to take the plane anyway. It felt that moment easier to go forward into something unpredictable, than to stay paralyzed where I was. »I have my camera with me, I will take pictures, that‘s what I can do.« I told myself.

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