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