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Böhm #56 – New Landscapes

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:26:45 +0000

Die Böhm is a fanzine published by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber since 1999. Each issue is the juxtaposition of two different bodies of work, one each by Stuke and Sieber, under a single collective title.

Both photographers are concerned primarily with issues surrounding portraiture, the mediated image, the expressions of self-identity influenced by popular culture, in particular youth sub-cultures — Darius Himes, Photobookreview 2012

Die Böhm is published once or twice a year.

Böhm #55, Böhm #56 and Böhm #57 are created with images taken by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber in and around Cervia (Italy) during their residency at Note di Sguardi (Giovanna Sarti) in 2023.

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Böhm #55 – Grand Tourismo

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:02:31 +0000

Die Böhm is published once or twice a year.

Böhm #55, Böhm #56 and Böhm #57 are created with images taken by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber in and around Cervia (Italy) during their residency at Note di Sguardi (Giovanna Sarti) in 2023.

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Portfolio Photography as Habitation – „House of Architecture“

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:42:00 +0000

Portfolio showcasing the artistic practice developed by Tamami Inuma under the term „House of Architecture“.

To feel architecture as if it was human. Sometimes I feel a sense of familiarity, attachment, respect, or even admiration. This is probably because of the accumulated history and memories of pople’s live latent in these buildings. Architectural fragments are like entrances to „passages“ that let us leap across space and time. These passages lead from architcture to history and stories, and from the present to the past and future. Under the theme of „House of Architecture“, Iinuma photographs architecture as accumulations of people’s memories, and cities and landscapes as habilitations of architecture.

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Japan in der DDR – Meine Begegnung mit drei japanischen Häusern in Ostdeutschland

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:08:42 +0000

From the authors foreword: “Japan in the GDR – My Encounter with Three Japanese Hotels in East Germany” is a project that began with my encounter with the still-existing “Interhotel Merkur (now the Westin)” building in Leipzig (…). Soon after this encounter (…) I learned that this was the first project of the Japanese company Kajima Corporation in Europe, a building that was one of four major turnkey projects. The other three are the “International Trade Center Berlin”, the “Interhotel Bellevue Dresden”, and the “Grandhotel Berlin”. (…) Of these four, I decided to focus my attention on hotels. The reason for this was my interest in hotels as theatrical spaces, often used as settings for films or novels. I also felt a strong attraction to the fact that in various sources on the Merkur, the word “hotel” was often replaced with “house”, as I had been interested in the poetics of the “house” for some time.

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Rund um die weiße, kleine Architektur: vom Punkt zur Linie

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:23:20 +0000

From the foreword:
My interest in sericulture and silk spinning goes back to my father’s family. As a starting point for approaching the subject, I focused on the “architectural character” of sericulture and silk spinning. In the course of my work, which explores the topic of “architecture” as a photographic subject, I have come to see “architecture” not only as the buildings themselves, but also as the history of the city and individual places, as well as the traces of individual activities and their accumulation and spread. — Tamami Iinuma

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Real Estate

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:15:02 +0000

„I visited Higashikawa for the first time in the summer of 2007. During my stay I became fascinated by the town’s houses… . (Later) I came to learn more about the houses in Higashikawa, which are based upon the „Act on Promotion of Construction of Good Rural Housing“. (…) The silhouette of each house is drawn to be in harmony with the ridge of the nearby Daisetsuzan Volcano Group. The pitch of the roof, the color palette and the distance from the sidewalk to the entrance are all considered,whist the use of local timbers is also promoted. The result is impressive, which each piece of architecture having a strong impact … . — Tamami Iinuma in Case Study:„A place that is truly photogenic“ – The gentrification of provincial towns in Japan

… photographic encounters generate stories that celebrate humanity and extol nature. (…) In order to provide opportunities for the emotional excitement that comes with photography, we the residents of Higashikawa hope to create a new world that embodies the best of the four seasons in our town, to build a community with heart that is open to the people of the world and a place that is truly photographic. —Photo Town Manifesto Higashikawa-cho, Kamikawa-gun, Hokkaido (June 1, 1985)

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De construction

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:03:01 +0000

In De construction Kathi Seemann deals with the construction and deconstruction of architecture and living space, the cycle of restoration, demolition, new construction and the memories that remain. The publication is a collection of documentary photographs in digital and risographic printing. Nine loose interleaved sheets can be disassembled, rearranged and expanded.

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La Ville Invisible

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:39:59 +0000

»A single building’s history can reveal layers of the city that once was, showing how spaces constantly evolve. New cities emerge on top of the old, creating a complex landscape of urban plateaus.« (from the interview with Ivan Vartanian)
Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been working on »Cartographie Dynamique« since 2017. »Cartographie dynamique« is a virtual network connecting cities in Japan, Germany, France, China or India with the distinctive photographic works created in each location, often focussing on the transformation of the city.
The current chapter, La Ville Invisible, deals with the question of whether major events such as the Olympic Games or EXPO can be accelerators of urban change. To what extent they contribute to changing the understanding of private and public space. Do ideas of coming together, exchange and sporting competition still play a central role or are the arenas and pavilions just more ruins of the future?  The book contains images from Osaka, Tokyo, Paris, Seoul and Sarajevo taken since 2014.

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Le Monde de demain: A prologue

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:45:56 +0000

Le Monde de Demain examines the transformation of urban spaces, the influence of hip-hop culture and the impact of the Olympic Games on the dynamics of the Greater Paris region. In January 2023, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber had the privilege of meeting contemporary dancer Eman Hussein in Paris, whose dance practice is inspired by workers’ movements. This zine, Le Monde de Demain: A prologue, contains new works from their artistic research project Le Monde de Demain and additional photographs.

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Arriving — About the Architecture of Refugee Accommodation in Germany

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:41:36 +0000

Ankommen is a study of architectural infrastructure for state-provided accommodation for refugees in Germany. During the so called European migrant crisis from 2015 on Germany got known for its ‘welcome culture’ towards refugees. Since 2015 millions of refugees have arrived to the country and the state has had to react quickly trying to provide sufficient housing for the immigrants. In the fast paced urban planning process material and immaterial borders are created, making it challenging for the refugees to settle. Through photographic documentation, aerial views and official documents of regulations regarding refugee housing complexes the book raises a questions about the architecture’s impairing effects for refugees integration to German society. (https://kultbooks.com/)

2020 – German Photobook Award Winner (Dummy)

2020 – KASSEL DUMMY AWARD Shortlist

2021 – Publication grant VG Bild-Kunst Cultural Funding

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