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opus incertum

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:29:14 +0000

In opus incertum – a term borrowed from Roman masonry, which consists of building walls from small blocks, broken tiles and a variety of bricks – Daniel Wagener questions the memory of time and place, and the social and functional transformations experienced by urban buildings.
opus incertum portrays a new reality, seeks to document episodes of urban construction, uncovers what lies behind the ostentation, reveals what is no longer seen.
opus incertum is also a tribute to the collective work and commitment of those who form society during the construction process, who ensure the transmission of methods and culture, and practice oral exchange in an exemplary show of solidarity, while remaining invisible.

Published on the occasion of the Luxembourg Photography Award 2023.

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Espinho

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 13:24:59 +0000

Some years ago, while sitting on a train in Portugal, Vincen Beeckman stumbled upon the town of Espinho and it’s fishermen’s quarter, a self-contained area of the city consisting of twenty streets at the most.
Espinho was once home to a large fish-canning factory, the de Fábrica Brandão, Gomes & Cª, established in 1894 by two pairs of brothers from the local area. The fishermen of Espinho had a loyal client in the brothers Brandão & Gomes. At its peak, this company employed no fewer than 400 people – including children.
With the introduction of huge industrial fishing vessels, floating factories, coming mainly from neighbouring Spain, little was left for the fishermen of Espinho to fish. The coastal factory has been closed for decades. Only two ships of the local fishing fleet still navigate the currents of the Atlantic. Espinho’s fishermen still catch their fish using the ancient Xávega method (also known as xávena), whereby small wooden boats go out to sea to cast baited nets, that are later hauled in from shore.
After his first encounter, Beeckman frequently returned to the fishing quarter for a number of weeks each year, to photograph this vanishing world. With this publication, launched together with Espinho’s community, Vincen Beeckman pays homage to an era that is about to come to an end.

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YOUTH – Collectors Edition

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:41:28 +0000

Y O U T H focusses photographically and linguistically on the structures of the rural life of village teenagers in Germany. The work challenges identification and interconnectedness, team play and group dynamic in local groups, clubs and circles of friends. Which role do youth-culture and fashion, “home” and tradition play in times of an increasing political shift to the right and glorification of life in the country-side? In the book, which is created in line with the exhibition project, the photographs are accompanied by the essay Idealized Images of Rural Life: Between Right-Wing Ideology and the Romanticism of the Everyday by Yasmin El Sayed, as well as an essay and interview with Kathi Seemann about her photographic work.

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YOUTH

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:25:22 +0000

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FUNGI – Collectors Edition

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:00:02 +0000

Fungi are the oldest living species on our planet. They build and spread their communities across human borders, continents, laws … They take over land without asking permission. They clean up toxic messes in disturbed landscapes and shake the land back to life to create livable grounds for animals, plants and maybe humans. They have the power to transport energy between weaker and stronger trees, to keep forests alive or to kill them. Their spores are invisible and spread and spread and spread. — Dries Segers

Photographed in Dudenpark, Brussels in autumn 2018.

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FUNGI

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:38:20 +0000

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Forain, Kaffers en Boerin

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 19:57:51 +0000

For three years, Siska Vandecasteele follows Johnny, who has been a merchant for all his life. Johnny gives the photographer an insight into the otherwise closed world of the fair. He opens the doors of his house and caravan for her. He alternately puts her on the wrong foot, and makes her think.

This book describes the story of Johnny in word and image. A typical atypical „foorkramer“. Siska Vandecasteele traces a world that is slowly disappearing. A world that seems different, but not so different from our world – those of the visitors or “kaffers en boerinnen“.

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one

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 22:38:53 +0000

ONE is a visual diary evolving around questions like is religion still able to reconnect humans with the world and with themselves
and which universal values are immanent in different religions. It was photographed during the 2008 Durga Puja in Kolkata, India. — OL

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Don’t Tell Anyone I’m Here

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:20:44 +0000

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Schenkendorfstrasse 1

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:05:15 +0000

Karsten Kronas’ work Schenkendorfstrasse 1 was developed during the artist’s work stay in Koblenz, while being granted with a scholarship by the city.

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