Photographing to be present for what moves and interests me. Photography as evidence also truly to have been there, not for others, always for myself. Photography is for me a circle with two poles. One half will be lived, the other remembers. So simple, so complicated is this with me and my photography.

Photography is my collection of memories, slowly becoming full, in order to finally be able to back away. Photography is a strategy against my fear of loss. I use photography always for the same thing: to hang on, to make visible, make clear and retrievable, in the sense of memory. But I also ask with photography. Only, it, the photographed world, gives me no answer. No decisive one anyway, because through it I would merely become aware of time in the sense of speed and consequently also my transiency. I feel through photography, that I am mortal.

André Gelpke 2012

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