1st place
gold star award
Lennard Grohn
germany 
Photo © Lennard Grohn
title
Promise fulfilled
He died in September 2023.
My first (analogue) camera was given to me by my parents when I was 12 years old. Even as a teenager, it sparked my passion for photography and helped me through this difficult time.
When I left school, I studied photography at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Mainz, where I graduated.
After the early death of my beloved father, my work consists of a systematic approach to black and white photography as a way of expression, where I want to create timeless images about personal stories connected to my past and my imagination, my childhood and the decay of the illusion of a perfect world.
Photography also helps me to deal with the subject of transience and death, which I had rather repressed in my life before.
back to gallery
entry description
Since childhood I have a special soul connection with my beloved grandfather. He taught me that you need humor in life and should not only "function" in society like a machine. As a teenager, he let me drive his Volvo on the campsite and taught me how to drive. When there were problems at school or with my parents, he was there for me like a friend. This made me ask him for a promise in my youth: Namely, that he would live to be 100 years old! In July 2023 he has reached 103 years of life and I decided to make a small portrait series of him, to honor him and record it for eternity.He died in September 2023.
about the photographer
My first (analogue) camera was given to me by my parents when I was 12 years old. Even as a teenager, it sparked my passion for photography and helped me through this difficult time.
When I left school, I studied photography at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Mainz, where I graduated.
After the early death of my beloved father, my work consists of a systematic approach to black and white photography as a way of expression, where I want to create timeless images about personal stories connected to my past and my imagination, my childhood and the decay of the illusion of a perfect world.
Photography also helps me to deal with the subject of transience and death, which I had rather repressed in my life before.
back to gallery
