ARTIST STATEMENT

The art of photography does not lie alone in precise exposure, an expert film development and a skilful enlargement, as even if these extremely important elements are present, still a crucial component is missing to the print: The photographer's personal contribution. Every good photography is based on the photographer's point of view, which is based on his subjective experience. Of course the photographic process is objective and confront therefore the photographer with the difficult task of the "production of a picture", which shows, if possible, the subjectivity of the original "seeing".

Everytime I take pictures, I don't photograph a motive, but the picture of a motive. To transform this motive into a picture, one must convert it into the "medium photography", meaning that everything you observed at the motive, experienced, felt you have to express with the given characteristics of the medium - the whole pallet of the grey tones . The more exactly one knows the tools, the more successfully the conversion is. The successful picture - and not the motive itself- then represents the photographic correspondence, the photographic equivalent of the experiences with this motive. In this doing the artistic photography arranges itself into a row with all other representing arts.

However I can not make and do not want to make the attempt to describe the creative-emotional motivation of my work, to analyze or define it. The inspiration and meaning of a photograph (or any work of art created with other means) is appropriate in the work itself. Those endless discussions on creativity are going - for my concept - senseless round in circles; their purpose seems to be me rather to pay homage to the fashion and to make burnt offerings on any altars then to serve the common recognising.

ONLY THE PICTURE CONTAINS THE MESSAGE.