Gallery Luisotti is featuring a selection of diptychs and triptychs from my shootings in Tokio/Japan at this year’s Paris Photo! These are vintage and unique c-prints coming directly from my archive, taken during my trips to Japan in the years 2006-07 with a medium-format, analog camera…

I met the architect Günther Domenig by chance on his building site in 1989. Shortly after reading a magazine article about his eccentric building, I spontaneously decided to drop by out of curiosity, without making an appointment. We got talking and he showed me around the concrete sculpture. I started to expose a few color films with my Nikon under his eyes. He made fun of the minimalism of my equipment, but I should send photos... – From then on, I accompanied the stone house for about four years until 1994 as the building-shell progressed. Photos of this work were first published in 1991 in the Japanese magazine AtU ("Architecture and Urbanism", No. 254), and further publications followed. 

During a retrospective research into the photographs taken at the time, l decided in 2023, in collaboration with the Fotohof archive, to re-edit the photographic material. In keeping with the provocative subject matter and its own visual effects, a new selection was scanned from the original negatives and printed in a small edition in black and white on matte paper. In contrast to my long-standing practice of color photography, this resulted in a group of monochrome works, formally characterized by perspective and detail. 

The works will be shown at Fotohof, Salzburg, in October 2024

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) adds a series of ‚Ruhr‘ vintage-prints to their pristine collection of photography, also featuring works by Laurenz Berges, Mitch Epstein, Sophie Ristelhueber, Yutaka Takanashi, Cesare Fabbri, Guido Guidi and Mark Ruwedel, among others! - The new acquisitions were on show during Paris Photo 2023 until January 2024. Also check out my VIEWS section...

After showing a portfolio of my work in the #1 issue of EIKON magazine in 1991 I am happy to be featured after a break of 33 years with a 10-page portfolio in the recent issue of EIKON #125! In conversation with Reinhard Braun we speak about my new book-edition LESSMORE, published by BR-ED, the need of self-publishing and discuss photographic strategies analog vs. digital…

 

Some of my works from "Untitled (Berlin, 1990)" are currently installed in a group-show from their collection! The work was commissioned at the time by Siemens AG, Munich. - These are face-mounted chromogenic prints, 50x60cm. See more here.