FRANK SCHASSE
Labyrinth

The photo was taken in Berlin at the Holocaust Memorial. I went deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of concrete blocks. The light conditions became darker and darker, it was narrow and cold. I wanted to intensify the mood and made a multiple exposure, the concrete blocks wanted to crush you. People flitted between the concrete blocks and disappeared again - a gloomy mood. This is exactly the mood the artist Peter Eisenman wanted to create.

Author
"It is an illusion that photos are taken with a camera... they are taken with the eye, the heart and the head."
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Frank Schasse is an architect and has been involved in photography since his student days. Both disciplines stem from the same quest: the attempt to give form to space, light and perception in a way that goes beyond the purely visible.
For him, photography is far more than the capture of a moment. It is an act of seeing – and, at the same time, of realisation. It is only through conscious observation that the world begins to transform. What is seen detaches itself from its mere reality and becomes a new image in which memory, mood, emotion and imagination merge. This gives rise to a reality of its own, which allows us to glimpse not so much the object itself as its very essence.

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www.frankschasse.com

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