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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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Far away from home: the voices, the body and the periphery

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:09:00 +0000

“All utopias are depressing because they leave no room to chance, to difference, to those who are ‘different’. Everything has been ordered; order reigns. Behind every utopia lies a great taxonomic design: a place for everything and every thing in its place.” — Georges Perec, Thoughts of Sorts

Hristina Tasheva: Far away from home: the voices, the body and the periphery is a project inspired by a heated debate that took place some time ago. In public, a Dutch citizen with an academic background asked me: “Are you a communist?” To understand what it means to be a communist, I have chosen to place the word in its historical contexts in the Netherlands and in Bulgaria.

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CHOR — Collectors Edition

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 26 May 2021 11:30:36 +0000

CHOR unites photographic works by Florian Glaubitz, which he created in 2018 and 2019 on commission at the University of Münster. Accompanied by a text contributed by Adrian Williams and an interview between Ursula Frohne and the artist, Glaubitz’ large-format close-ups form a sensitive photographic essay about the scientific community on the university campus as a polyphonic organism in motion.

“[Florian Gaubitz’] portrait depicts the institution as an amalgamation of ideas and intentions united geographically, entertained within structures, a concept made up of so many variable parts. … This is the Choir.” — Adrian Williams

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The Body Will Thrive

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 14:13:05 +0000

This book groups my photographic research on dance and movement of the past six years. It can be read as a choreography in which the rhythm of the dance is accompanied by the pace of turning each page. — Lore Stessel

Whether we float high above snow capped mountains or dive deep below the surface of the ocean, to where air bubbles beautifully twinkle, Lore Stessel’s images are breathtaking. (…) There is something all-encompassing in her works that reaches from the stratosphere, up above the globe, down to the charming wrinkles on the back of an anonymous nude. (…) Lore Stessel’s “images”, (…) generate (…) a fragile, threatened image, so close in its organization, its granular texture, and its emergent aspect, to certain Seurats — an incomparable image which makes one dream of a photographic substance distinct from subject matter, and of an art in which light creates its own metaphor. (1) — from Nico Anklam, Up above the mountain, down by the sea. Painterly encounters of a photographic kind.

(1) Hubert Damish, Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image. In: October, Vol. 5, Photography (Summer, 1978), p 72

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L’Entre-Corps

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 22:15:54 +0000

L’Entre-Corps presents recent cinematic work by Laure Cottin Stefanelli and Peter Snowdon. This books central topic is the interplay between the filmed body and the filming body in the cinematographic and photographic practices of both artists. L’Entre-Corps is a trace and an extension of a dialogue, which took place during the year of their common residence at the Conversation residency in Brussels. This program, initiated by Atelier Cinéma du GSARA and Atelier de Production, supports authors focussing on the challenges of the documentary film, its writings and variations.

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Camouflage studies

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 09:43:11 +0000

Camouflage Studies, 2014/2016
“The camera, it was hoped, would make everything clearer.” (1)

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As a military application, a black and white film emulsion sensitive for infrared light was the key to break many codes. Infrared film is able to point out different absorbtions of thermal radiation, and thus reveal camouflaged installations. More specific camouflage techniques could be exposed by combining high grade black and white films and optic filters. Such colored filters provided huge possibilities for experimentation: isolating different wavelenghts to figure out color through black and white and laying out the pieces of the puzzle. These specialized imaging techniques were aimed to break ‘the most perfect cryptic powers’ and to reveal enemies with the chameleonic impulse. (3)

(1) Hanna Rose Shell, Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance, 2012, New York, Zone Books, p.89

(3) Hanna Rose Shell, Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance, 2012, New York, Zone Books, p.173

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