honorable mention
Natalie Truchsess germany
Photo © Natalie Truchsess
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Longing For Life
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As a documentary photographer, my goal is to portray the world as it appears to me in its complexity. To reduce the images more to atmosphere, I work with a technique of moving the camera quickly to blur the contours (ICM). This technique also allows me to intuit hidden aspects of my reality. By dissolving the contours, light and colors take on a greater importance over the subjects. Light and colors also communicate more strongly through feeling, rather than reason, and so can better convey moods. Just as poetry can be seen as a highly individual engagement with the world, intuitively understood beyond words because it penetrates realms that elude the mind, the visual language of my photographs allows me to speak in lyrical abstraction about the complexity of my reality.
In addition to classical photography, I use abstract photography in my current work to explore the representation of the subliminal, the ineffable and the ephemeral.
New approaches to documentary photography drive my practice - through the movement of the camera (ICM), the contours of the subjects dissolve and merge with situational moods. I succeed in creating a visual language that conveys the complexity of my reality in lyrical abstraction.
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What you could do when....
As a documentary photographer, my goal is to portray the world as it appears to me in its complexity. To reduce the images more to atmosphere, I work with a technique of moving the camera quickly to blur the contours (ICM). This technique also allows me to intuit hidden aspects of my reality. By dissolving the contours, light and colors take on a greater importance over the subjects. Light and colors also communicate more strongly through feeling, rather than reason, and so can better convey moods. Just as poetry can be seen as a highly individual engagement with the world, intuitively understood beyond words because it penetrates realms that elude the mind, the visual language of my photographs allows me to speak in lyrical abstraction about the complexity of my reality.
about the photographer
I started with analogue documentary, landscape and portrait photography. I then worked as a camera assistant at state television, later moving to sound engineering at state radio.In addition to classical photography, I use abstract photography in my current work to explore the representation of the subliminal, the ineffable and the ephemeral.
New approaches to documentary photography drive my practice - through the movement of the camera (ICM), the contours of the subjects dissolve and merge with situational moods. I succeed in creating a visual language that conveys the complexity of my reality in lyrical abstraction.
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