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C50

Robert Schlotter — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:44:56 +0000

The artist book C50 by Claudia Christoffel is printed in deep black on black paper – interspersed with pages in so-called Baker-Miller pink. According to scientific studies, this color has a calming and mood-lifting effect, which is why it is used in hospitals and prisons. Alternating with medical reports, this book consists of playlists and favorite songs Christoffel received from colleagues and friends. C50 is the technical term for breast cancer.

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Halle-Silberhöhe

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:08:22 +0000

Between 1979 and 1989, the new Halle-Silberhöhe district was built in prefabricated construction in the south of the city of Halle (Saale). Around 15,000 apartments for around 39,000 people were built on an area of around 200 hectares.
This urban development measure became necessary, among other things, due to the additional need for workers in the nearby Leuna works and the Buna chemical works. Halle-Silberhöhe was not built in the spirit of a socialist ideal city, but rather pursued the sole aim of creating living space.

Until 1989 there was a high degree of social mixing in Halle-Silberhöhe. After 1989 there were major changes in the labor and housing markets. Unemployment, social separation and vacancies were observed and young people in particular were leaving the Silberhöhe. Since the mid-1990s, Halle-Silberhöhe has lost more than half of its residents, and by 2004 the average age had risen by ten years.
Due to the drastic vacancy rates, Halle-Silberhöhe was partly demolished in certain areas and partly in large areas. The resulting fallow areas should be largely reforested.

Between 2005 and 2007, Robert Schlotter documented the architecture, streets and processes of change in the Silberhöhe and portrayed residents and passers-by.

“In the GDR, new housing estates were built as planned, which, in addition to creating living space, were also intended to offer a socialist alternative to the “bourgeois” old towns. What was sought after back then – also because of the clean district heating and hot running water – has now often degenerated into a problematic peripheral zone. One of these is the Silberhöhe in Halle (Saale). Robert Schlotter visited the Silberhöhe between 2005 and 2007, photographed streets and made portraits of their residents. The black and white of his photos reinforces the structural desolation of the prefabricated buildings, in contrast to the people who live here. In their looks – here Schlotter approaches Helga Paris’s Halle series – the will to persevere is palpable. Silberhöhe has become home to many.” — MDV, Halle (Saale)

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Supernatural 2021

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:45:35 +0000

The portraits of athletes were taken during the Olympic Games among others in Sydney (2000), Athens (2004), Beijing (2008) and London (2012) photographed from a television screen. The singular Olympic Games idea, the particular competition situation directly before the decisive sporting performance, the moment of concentration and the question of the identity and development of… Continue reading Supernatural 2021

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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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CHOR

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 13:55:11 +0000

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To Meena, Chowpatty Beach, Mumbai, India

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 07:28:11 +0000

“I met Meena in 2006 when I first visited Mumbai. We chatted and took a picture. Back in Germany, I sent her our photo: To Meena, Chowpatty Beach, Mumbai, India. The letter actually reached the homeless family. That was the beginning of our close friendship, which has now lasted 13 years. Together with Meena, an unusual woman full of energy and warmth, this book was created about her, us and her family.“ — Helena Schätzle

A colorful, lively book about a woman full of contagious soulfulness and love. Meena’s life story: with notes from her diary and photographs by Helena Schätzle.

Read an article (in German language) about To Meena, Chowpatty Beach, Mumbai, India in Chrismon Magazine.

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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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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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Paul / Paweł

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:25:04 +0000

Based on his own photographs as well as on family album treasures, Paul Koncewicz enfolds in PAUL/PAWEŁ his own family ties and gives us an unembellished, sensitive and empathetic insight into the everyday life of his binational family circle.

The German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT writes about his publication:
“Photographer Paul Koncewicz takes the psychological term “family constellation” literally by working through his biography with PAUL/PAWEŁ: As a child of divorce, he moved to Germany with his mother while his father stayed in Poland.
Koncewicz later met his biological father as a student and began to photograph him both alone and together with him, just as he was already doing with his family in Germany; his archive of images of a constructed family history has been growing steadily ever since.
By retroactively depicting supposedly everyday scenes of family interaction, Koncewicz goes in search of his childhood, which despite all the breaks serves as an imaginary setting for points of contact.“

A strong publication — a strong family portrait that reveals something amazing: Two separate and at the same time united families, different and yet similar.

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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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