The distinctiveness of photography is the indissoluble connection between how a person behind a camera subjectively perceives an object and the real object itself. The object itself is subjectivized as it were in the process of depiction. Beyond that, the question of what exactly makes reality itself, real, intrigues me. Many philosophers, among them Sartre, Heidegger and Wittgenstein, have explored whether there can be an objective reality at all, if everything is filtered through subjective perception. Constructivism and philosophical theory similarly bases on the assumption that it is our perception that creates the realities
around us. The question „How real is our reality?“ underlies all my work. The photographed motif is merely the initial starting point for a creative process. It enables a form of personal reconquest of reality, arising from a longing to allow a radical subjectivity in the appropriation, perception and representation of the world. The digital transformation of my photos shows reality as interpretation and at the same time as irritation. Thus, something new emerges, born of the real yet detached from it and photography becomes a medium for tracing the subjective in the objective. Digitally superimposing different motifs, blurring or playing with a negative and positive presentation simultaneously, these are my essential design tools for my surreal compositions. Artistic creativity with photography as medium turns into a dance with and around the „real“, plays with something that lies beyond the photographed subject, leading the beholder into a reality that can no longer be explained by intellectual judgement alone. My works become the image of a journey into my poetic and aesthetic appropriation of the world, and yet they leave the viewer plenty of room for their own perception and experience. To lead the beholder to new visual and aesthetic ground in photography, and thus to a more critical approach to the medium, is a central concern of mine. For in an increasingly digitalized, virtual world, its reality must constantly be questioned anew.