RUHR ART III - Colours of Corrosion 5

Colours of Corrosion

The Ruhr area, formerly an important industrial area in West Germany, has been in a process of transformation for a long time.

Former facilities of mining and steel industry were either disposed of or preserved as cultural monuments and now used for recreational purposes.

Since these systems have long been exposed to weathering and oxidation processes, changes in shape and colour in a wide variety of materials were initiated or even intensified.

As a photographer , my aim is not just to document the changing processes in detail, but to bring these colour and design compositions to effect photo-painterly, simply by taking the picture, without making major changes through image processing.

I consciously see the boundaries between photography and painting as being fluid here.