Germany

Kilian Foerster

www.kilianfoerster.de

Biography

Killian Foerster (b.1970) started training as a Physiotherapist and worked in different hospitals and rehabilitation centres. From 2002-2006 he studied graphic design/photography at the University of applied sciences in Hamburg, Germany. After finishing his diploma, he started the body of work "Positiv&Negativ" about the subject of HIV/AIDS. After graduation, he started working on free and independent projects which give him the freedom which he doesn't get in contract work.

The series, Dinge und Ortes or Things and Places shows everyday occurrences.
The pictures in the series sometimes allude only to a remembered smell, colour or sound. The photograph - like a frozen moment in time is able to reach a new dimension in time by bringing the past (memories) into the present (perception) and therefore breaking beyond the frozen moment.

"I started this photo project at the end of 2012 in Thessaloniki, Greece because I was annoyed with the media reporting (in particular images) about the so called "euro-crisis": In the media reporting there were often clichés and stereotypes, but this only causes prejudice and generalization in the public view.
I concentrated my project on the younger people, because they are not responsible for the current situation but most of them are affected by the consequences of the crisis at present and also in the future.
I am still working with an old-fashioned medium-size film camera and - due to financial reasons - I make only four or five pictures of each participant. Because the participants can't see the result immediately with my film camera, this project demands a lot of respect and confidence. I am not so much interested in posed or staged portraits, I just want to photograph the young people the way I see them. I don't use any tripod and if possible I only photograph with the sunlight or natural light , so I can work really fast and concentrated."

Kilian Foerster