2011 was a year of new beginnings ...

More "Heimat", now in Switzerland. I look forward to updating and completing "Critical Distance", amongst other and new projects.

People who may have been to this blog in recent months, may have wondered about the relative inactivity here. That's because aside from our new family addition, Olivia Claire (b. 7/5/11 in New York), I have started a great new job as the Zürich director of the Galerie Edwynn Houk and re-located the entire family for that reason to Switzerland in August. Therefore, most of my time was spent becoming familiar to a daughter and her schedule, a new job and home. I haven't stopped photographing, and I even started new projects, but there had been less time devoted to processing the work and trying to have it seen. I hope this will change in 2012. There is plenty on the burners. So, please keep checking this blog and my website (By the way: I am looking for someone to change and update my website. If you know someone who can do it on a reasonable budget, please drop me a line.). Thank you.

Happy Holidays!

Lecture and Panel Discussion

Today, I held a lecture on Contemporary Photography ("The Impact of Digital Technologies on Photography") at a charity "Fotoseminar" benefitting the Johanna Heumann Foundation at the House Metropol of the Bank Clariden Leu, Zurich. Nanny Baltzer of the University Zurich presented before me a "Stroll through the History of Photography". Afterwards, I participated in a panel discussion on photography that eventually circled back to my presentation of digital technologies and photography, and became quite heated over the argument whether "digital photography" and its practice can be called photography and art at all. I was rather surprised that technology rather than image content are still taken as the determining factor for the inclusion in the "sacred world" of Art and/or Art Photography. That seems to be the old but updated discussion about photography as art ... Interesting, indeed.

For it's urgency: "Work" (2005)

An older piece of mine, called "Work" (from the 2005 series "Heim|Fern|Weh"). No less timely today I think ...

Reset!

In December 2010, my work Good Homes from my series Critical Distance - a perpetual absence of home was included in the small group exhibition Reset! organized by the Curatorial Studio in the Art & Design Department at Grand Valley State University (Grand Rapids, Michigan). You'll find it documented here.

Please scroll down for more information on Critical Distance as well as a selection of the triptychs, diptychs and single images included in this series.