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Write down: What do you think the images show? A certain drift. The drift being more pronounced than the certainty. What exactly is the role of theory in photography? Can you think your way into a project, can the images solve the question the text poses? Is something reachable for an image that is not reachable by the text (and vice versa)?
WritingApril 24, 2025
On Fatigue
On the eye's own muscles tiring, and the idea of having seen too much.
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Kinder auf der Landstraße
On Mahler/Schirmer's Ein Dorf, and how the idealized image of the Village stays endlessly reusable across ideologies.
Read →WritingApril 22, 2025
The Destroyer
Altitude sickness in the Atacama, the wiping-out of thoughts, and what's left of the impulse to photograph afterward.
Read →WritingArles · July 2026
Arles Diary, part 1
First dispatch from the Rencontres d'Arles: the heat and crush of too many images, photography as the way we now experience the world, and being floored by Ming Smith.
Read →WritingArles · July 2026
Arles Diary, part 2
Day two of the Rencontres d'Arles: Bourdieu's art world as organized religion, fleeing the vernissages, William Klein and the Steichen flowers — and Arles as a date with an ex.
Read →WritingArles · July 2026
Arles Diary, part 3
Day three of the Rencontres d'Arles: the photobook as catalog, the celebrity-cult shows, the standouts (Cannibal Image, CTRL), and the tricksters at the Fondation van Gogh.
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Arles Diary, part 4
About the money that was in journalistic photography, the quality of the Stern, how photojournalism was founded, and with it a whole form of dealing with photography is dead now: The topics are not gone, they just receded from a public eye into the photobook.
Read →WritingArles · July 2026
Arles Diary, part 5
On awkward moments, sunset, nostalgia, the patina of texture, kitsch&comebacks
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