Photography 

 

My love for photography came in my late teens, and this definitely has to do with my dad, who as a young man was passionate about photography and who when I was 16 guided me through the whole process of knowing and understanding what a camera does, to developing a film and making prints. In absence of other possibilities we just used the bathroom because this was the only room without a window in the apartment. This was very exciting experience for me, and I loved the mathematical, scientific touch about it and the technicality of the process, even though I never really used this knowledgeable approach later in my  photography, for better or for worse. So whereas my introduction and first attempts in photography were very much under influence of my paternal teacher and his sense of aesthetic and his knowledge, the work I have since done alone diverges very much from those early days.

 

The young photographic enthusiast that I was, and the untypical girl running around with a Minolta and an array of lenses hanging, I took part at national competitions, and actually won a first prize, an honorable mention and got exhibited a few times. I haven’t managed to repeat this success internationally since then, yet.

 

In 2007 I got my first digital camera which could do less than even a regular smartphone nowadays can. So since that moment I kind of switched to “the other side” even though at that time I did not deem digital photography as “real” photography, as a fine art medium. It was something of a copy whereas analogue photography was the only real thing. I do not see it that way now, and actually all of the photos on this page are digital by making. Actually if it wasn’t for the camera on my first smart phone in 2016 and for social media, I was on a good way to lose photography, too from my life. And somehow these things that I always thought of as distant as they can be from photography as art, actually brought back the art of photography into my life. I am still learning and am quite overwhelmed by what digital cameras can do and how much one can do with a digital photo once it was taken. 

 

On this page I present a selection of my work, grouped in galleries. This was a difficult task, trying to find some “red threads” among photos that stem from very different years and that were never intentionally meant to belong together.