"This is a project (2011 – ongoing) in which I have photographed 8
different families in 5 different cities (Vienna, New York, London,
Paris and Berlin). I question the strategies and intentions of
photographing someone, and the possibilities of working against an
invasion of privacy in a time of complete overflow of images. I am
interested in examining the notion of ‘posing’ , the need to perform in
the age of social networking and permanent surveillance. I wanted to
create works that transport a feeling of intimacy and closeness with the
self for the subject (and the viewer) but without exposing anyone. I
started photographing some of my friends who had just had their first
babies in 2011, and I found the act of photographing someone with their
child to be an inherently different experience. Not only due to the fact
that the young mothers are in an in-between and often vulnerable state
of adjusting to their new role as a mother, but also because their
attention is mainly on their child, and thus not so much on the moment
of being photographed. There is less of a photographic performance
between the sitter and myself. I have always been interested in
questioning the process of the photographic act – of ‘presenting’
oneself for an image of oneself. As a generation that seems to be ‘on
air’ constantly in a society which demands permanent communication and
information, the camera can become very tiresome. In this series I tried
to give space for images of people to be with themselves and for
themselves rather than for others. Composition and color are of great
importance to me by allowing individuals to become anonymous, sculptural
forms intertwined and molded together. Although I work quite formally
in this series, what I try to depict is a feeling of something human and
authentic."
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