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Masse

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:10:33 +0000

Michael Gessner’s Masse sheds sharp new light on the signifiers of surveillance embedded in everyday life. Conceived as a sociological exploration of mass behaviour in the digital age, the photo book invites contemplation on the myriad ways in which individuals are monitored – and in which they monitor themselves – as they transition through the blurred boundaries between the digital and the physical.

Masse opens with an image revealing a set of shiny bronze doors. The eye is drawn to a black box angled above its entrance. What does it see? And who is watching? Though the questions remain unanswered, the tone is set for the following pages, which reveal Gessner’s artistic dexterity as he moves seamlessly from hyper-stylised shots of hardware to classic architectural photos, collaged Fitbits, smudged impressions tracing the movement of fingerprints on a screen, and cropped streetscapes in Berlin, Seoul, and New York. Rooftop satellites, radio towers and CCTV cameras are extracted from their surroundings and examined in a detached, exacting style.

Scattered throughout, a series of six abstract works depicts shards of a circuit board splintering into ever smaller fragments – as traces of the surveillance society come into focus, so too does the digital copy of the self become increasingly nuanced. Across Gessner’s works, the restrained seduction of his visual language, executed with unfaltering precision, contrasts starkly with the complexity of the subject his camera examines. Lured into a conceptual panopticon, the viewer looks in from the edge and gazes out from the centre of the mass; at once the observer and the observed.

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Woodward

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:34:35 +0000

Woodward Avenue is one of Detroit’s five major avenues and leads from the city center to affluent suburbs. The photographs in the self-published and spiral-bound photo book Woodward were taken in 2015, some on foot, some from the co-driver’s seat. By sequencing them in the form of a book, the images convey the changes in the urban fabric along the route and thus the changing social and economic conditions in the various parts of Detroit that were traversed. In addition, the photographs taken from the moving car refer to the history of Detroit as a place of origin of the automobile, to the way in which the cityscape is constructed in terms of its visibility for motorists, and to the historically close connection between photography and the street. — Christian Kasners

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Tout va bien maman

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:57:19 +0000

Tout va bien maman brings together 60 photographs taken by Sandrine Marc in her neighborhood in Paris during the covid related lockdown in spring 2020. This photographs depict urban landscape in transformation in Ivry-sur-Seine and Nanterre. The zine, Tout va bien maman, published in 100 copies, is handmade. The pages, bound with gray thread, were printed on a Xerox copier. The zine was published by Sandrine Marc on the occasion of her solo exhibition at the Galerie du Crous (Nov 2022, PhotoSaintGermain Festival). It is a sequel to the work entitled “Change plus vite que le cœur”, which was self-published in 2018.

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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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Tøyen sentrum

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:16:35 +0000

Line Bøhmer Løkken on Tøyen sentrum:
„On a regular basis, I have sought out this fortress of red brick, with its tall towers that hover over and protect the partially concealed square. And despite its architectonic openness, it feels confined. I would not claim that we have become friends, this place and I, but one might say that we have become acquaintances of sorts. Familiar and unfamiliar faces appear, and like other outdoor spaces, it fills up and is emptied in accordance with the temperature.

I know each angle, each nook and cranny. I have fine-combed the area with my one-sided gaze. Not so much with the desire to disclose, as with the desire to comprehend and understand, so that I can finally feel some sense of belonging. Despite this, we cannot quite manage to gain one another’s confidence. It is as though the place wants to retain its secrets, as though I cannot come close enough.

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Confined Space

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:04:01 +0000

This body of work of Laura J. Padgett was taken during several travels across the Libanon. It is an artist’s view of space, form and detail and at the same time a record. A record of the atmosphere of a place. On their own, these photographs may appear elusive, abstract, out-of-place. As a whole, the series… Continue reading Confined Space

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Lob der Peitschenlampe

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:35:22 +0000

The offset-printed leaflet Lob der Peitschenlampe, self-published in 2016, combines two photographic images by Arne Schmitt with quotes from Wolf Jobst Siedler, Lob des Baumens, in: Siedler, Niggemeyer, Angreß, Die gemordete Stadt. Abgesang auf Putte und Straße, Platz und Baum, Berlin 1964, as well as, Klaus Heinrich, Willfährigkeit des Klassizismus? Vorlesung 1, Montag, 17.April 1978,… Continue reading Lob der Peitschenlampe

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Zweimal Belichtet

Robert Schlotter — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:56:56 +0000

Zweimal Belichtet by Aglaia Konrad is a publication about (an) unconscious photography (practice), in which two extremes meet. Filmstrips, which are exposed twice, more or less coincidentally, or by accident, in random circumstances, lead to an unintended result.

The recognition of this unintended practice in a publication reflects an unknown, blind faith in the medium of photography, as if the photo-grapher and the photo-camera both look the other way, so to speak, as if the photo-graphy is acting independently. A must-see for everybody who searches for a language of images in the realm of Esperanto (hope).

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Et Dans Ce Cas Seulement – Collectors Edition I

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:00:56 +0000

Three residency periods in Paris led to the series Et dans ce cas seulement. The pictures form a new chapter in Scenes of Wonder, a constantly growing collection of landscapes and cityscapes. In this work Marianne Hommersom focuses on the traces of human presence, light, textures, colors and on the way these elements come together in an often alienating, sometimes funny way.

No. 1 – 10 and No. 11 – 20 of Et Dans Ce Cas Seulement are issued as a numbered & signed collectors edition including a C-print.

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Et Dans Ce Cas Seulement

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:00:48 +0000

No. 1 – 10 and No. 11 – 20 of Et Dans Ce Cas Seulement are issued as a numbered & signed collectors edition including a C-print.

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