CIRCLE-24 member: Sabine KORTH - Italy
SABINE KORTH
CURRICULUM VITAE* 1958 in Bochum geboren.
* 1987 Diplom in Fotodesign an der FH Bielefeld mit dem Examensthema: 'Kultur und Freizeitleben der Jugendllchen in Florenz'.
* Lebt und arbeitet seit 1986 in Italien.
' * Von 1988-1994 Eigentümerin des "Print Service", Sohwarzweiss Fachlabor in Florenz.
AUSSTELLUNGEN
* 09/87 Ausstellung 'Kultur-und Freizeilleben der Jugendlichen in Florenz' in Bielefeld.
* 07/87 Ausstellung 'Männer' in der Galerie 'L'Upupa' in Florenz.
* 04/88 Ausstellung 'Firenze..., cultura contemporanea' im Café Voltaire in Florenz.
* 06/88 Ausstellung und Diskussion an der UniversitŠt Firenze, Fakultät Literatur mit Pio Baldelli.
* 12/89 Ausstellung im 'Stud' in Florenz.
* 05/91 Vortrag und Diskussion im 'Circolo Aurora' in Arezzo.
* 12/91 Ausstellung "Reisen" im 'Dr. No' in Florenz.
* 11/92 Ausstellung 'Lost' im Santambroglo Café in Florenz.
* 09/93 Teilnahme am Photosalon in Turin.
* 03/94 Ausstellung "Inside Orizons" in der Galerie 'L'Aleph' in Turin.
* 04/94 Gemeinschaftsausstellung der Fondation Giacomo Costa in Genua 'Viaggio intorno alla mia camera'
* 10/94 Ausstellung 'Inside Orizons' in der Galeri 'Actividades Culturales Palacio De Solis' in Salamanca, Spanien.
INSIDE HORIZONS
"In front, the camera takes a photograph, behind it cuts out a silhouette of the photographers soul. In front it sees his object, and behind it sees the reason, why this object should be fixed. Shows things and the desire of it."
(Wim Wenders)
Perceptions
Travelling, I collect instants and atmospheres. I'm not really in showing an action, or telling a fact. These are invented images, chosen from a state of mind; often "recognised" images (found as an answer to something that was already there).
Technique
I work with a Minox. This small camera allows me to get close to people, without interrupting the developing of the situation. A sensitive film and the manageable camera allow me to realise my photos in every light condition. I don't feel any technical limitation. In this way the use of the camera becomes simple and natural, like using a pen. Almost feels like an extension of my finger. I use black and white, because it seems abstract to me, and belongs to the imaginary. It is a way of searching the essence of things without stopping at the surface.
Collage
I have travelled to know, to see and to feel. Capturing situations that touch something inside of me, taking photographs becomes secondary. At the beginning there are travel photos and I never think of putting them together in a collage; very photo is complete on it's own.
Inside Orizons (Egypt)
27.6″x19.7″; silverprint photomontage; 1994
Printing a small 'diary book', I choose the sequence, rediscovering the way the story runs. Then I realise some images talk to each other. It becomes a game, to choose a first and second plain; when putting the photos together I don't start with any purpose but from an inspiration. Following the sensation of a dream and nostalgia for a faraway land.
In collage I found a way to realise more complete and complex images, bringing them even closer to my experience.
The unreal element
After my studies of classic reportage photography, I soon began to avoid realism, and started to tell my own "stories", instead of documenting reality.
I'm not looking for a unilateral simple image, but for the ambiguity of photography: another reality, legible only above the frame.
ANSCHRIFT
Sabine Korth
c/o Print Service
Via degli Alfani, 15r
50121 Florenz, Italien
e-mail: sbnkorth@yahoo.com
website: www.instagram.com/vintage_collage_sabine_korth/
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