Florence
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I started to take pictures with my grandfather's camera when I was 12, developed and printed in the lab self-taught, experimented a lot also during art-school and at ICP and still enjoy using photography as a main medium. Therefor I consider myself more as an artist than a photographer. And since I'm teaching photography I still learn new ways of perception through my students, which is very inspiring as well.

My way of working with the medium is not merely a classical one, but I'm interested what lies behind the surface of a plane picture, what photography as a medium inhabits, what is possible and where the limits are. I often mix medias and explore boundaries of imaging combining web-based photographs with scanned cut-outs from magazines, medical images and analog photographs either from my archive or found images from flee markets.

Some series are simple photographs within a contextual concept which often appear as if digitally manipulated but aren't.

I'm interested in what lies behind the surface of a plain picture. My inspiration either comes from philosophical, political, scientific or cultural sources and it takes me usually several years to explore a subject within its wide range and levels and to accomplish work series within the topic.