Each image in this series, entitled "Portrait", is both literally and conceptually skin deep. On one hand the series supports traditional portraiture by presenting an unique and intimate photographic capture of a single individual. On the other hand the lack of representation, personality, or narrative expunge all of the traditional reference points of a portrait. What's left is pure physicality. Sensuality and individuality are recognizable but largely unfamiliar and without reference. The series asks the viewer to come to terms with how we acknowledge identity when facial details, social clues, and even gender markers are inaccessible.
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Jochen Hein wrote on 03. February 2009, 00:31:08:
One person?
Unbelievable, it´s more or less mankind in one work.
nils eichberg wrote on 05. March 2010, 14:00:06:
schoene arbeit, nicht ganz neu (thomas florschuetz), aber immer wieder gut.