Six photographers present “Lausitzer Portraits” in the Fotoforum Dresden at the Neustädter Markt.
From January 26 to March 11, 2023, the Fotoforum Dresden is showing Lusatian portraits by Christina Glanz, Frank Höhler, Alexander Janetzko, Thomas Kläber, Georg Krause and Jürgen Matschie.
The focus is on people who are photographed as contemporary witnesses in the region: neighbors, eco-activists, miners from opencast coal mines, young people from a clique behind a supermarket. The portrayed are only people with their respective view of the world and the camera, which is demanding or skeptical, awake or doubtful, interested or rejecting. At the moment of surprise or staging, archetypes appear that, depending on the viewer’s point of view, represent the neighborhood, the region, stability and upheaval or simply being human.
In a long-term project, 76-year-old Christina Glanz has been photographing the dismantling of the Lower Lusatia coal and steel industry since 1990. She also made impressive portraits of the employees there.
Frank Höhler (67) impresses with an extensive, thematically and formally diverse work that emphasizes the documentary aspect of photography and sharpens the eye for social realities. 41-year-old Alexander Janetzko gets an idea of the world. He uses the resulting image to explore social conditions and to find an attitude towards them.
Thomas Kläber (67) photographs the working and everyday world of village structures and repeatedly traces their peculiarities. Georg Krause’s (66) photographic work is also shaped by his direct interest in people and the preservation of human integrity. And 69-year-old Jürgen Matschie makes Upper Lusatia his main topic. In the best tradition of social-documentary photography, he doesn’t embellish anything, but shows what is and what was without disguise.
“Lausitz Portraits” in the photo forum
- Vernissage, January 25, 2023, 7 p.m. in the presence of the artists
- The exhibition can be seen from January 26 to March 11, 2023 at Fotoforum Dresden, Neustädter Markt 12, 01097 Dresden.
- Open: Thursday and Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Free entry.
- www.fotoforumdresden.de
