No shoes to dance with

• Photographer
  Anna Katharina Zeitler, Germany
• Studio
  Anna Katharina Zeitler
• Socials
• Website
  http://www.katharinazeitler.com/

Describing places or situations through its facts, it can become
a web that branches off into the tiniest twigs and all directions.
Like in a thread, associations are interwoven with each other
and become partially absurd. Describing something with
pictures means to collect fragments, lift them from their context
and reassemble them. I am interested not in the immediately
concrete, but in that which can be detached from the given.
Places where contradictions come together. Pictures that
explode the surface.
The beauty of ballerinas makes a lot of girls dreaming of their
life, a world full of mystery and fascination.
But the actual lived stereotype in the self choosen gilded cage in
the theater retrieves desillusioning banalities and routines as
well as psychic hyperesthesia due to powerfull and deep
passions
My work „ No shoes to dance with“ is about the twilight zone of
the in general romantic stereotype of ballett dancers at the
theatre.
The photographed protagonists are involved in their particular
action, at the moment, where they are in between their real life
and their stage life, which makes it easy to read our own stories
into the pictures.
I was looking for pictures which can be read like a written
sentence. These pictures contain real moments which through
tiny changes can become a momentary staging. As narratives
create pictures, arrangements of pictures can create narratives.
From these connected single pictures, a play or a piece of our
time can emerge.
In my work, I look for pictures which contain a kind of theatrical
reality. Not in the form of a drama, but as a staging chanced
upon. Reality works as a setting and a stage of the pictures.
Maybe such pictures can describe a situation for the time being.

• Biography
  Anna Katharina Zeitler has taken part in exhibitions at relevant institutions for contemporary photography all over the world including the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Museum of Sydney, the Pingyao China International Photography Festival and the Wiesbadener Fototage. Her first monograph „ If you can dream it, you can do it“ was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2019. The booklaunch coincided with a Solo Museum Exhibition at the Munich City Museum. Since 2017 she has been teaching workshops with children and adolescents at the Berlin State Museums.
• Awards
  2017 Finalists Head on Portrait Award 2017, University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney, Australia 2016 No shoes to dance with, Photokina, Cologne,Germany 2015 No shoes to dance with, GuatePhoto, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2015 No shoes to dance with, Head on Photography Festival, Sydney, Australia AWARDS 2019 American Photography 35, New York, USA (winner) 2019 Silver Award San Francisco Bay International Photography Competition (winner) 2018 Month of Photography Bratislava, Slovakia (finalist) 2018 Athens Fotofestival, Athen, Greece (shortlisted) 2017 Head on Portrait Award, Sydney, Australia (finalist) 2017 Athens Fotofestival, Athen, Greece (shortlisted) 2017 Studio Award Acci Gallery, Berkeley, USA (winner) 2017 Urban 2017 Photo Awards, Trieste, Italy (finalist) 2016 Athens Fotofestival, Athen, Greece (shortlisted) 2016 International Emerging Artist Award, Dubai, United Arabic Emirates (honorable Mention) 2016 Lucie Foundation The analogue portrait project, Los Angeles, USA (winner) 2015 Prix de la photographie, Paris, France (winner) 2015 Moscow Photography Award, Moscow, Russia (winner) 2015 American Photography 31, New York, USA (winner) 2015 Photo Independent Best in Show, Los Angeles, USA (winner) 2015 Athens Fotofestival, Athen, Greece (shortlisted) 2015 Denver Month of Photography, Spark Gallery Focus Show, Denver, USA (winner) 2015 Denver Month of Photography, Truth & Perception Athena Projects, Denver, USA (winner) 2015 Solo Exhibition Prize PH21 Gallery (shortlisted) 2014 Head on Photography Festival 2015 (nominated) 2012 Martin Lagois Fotoprice (finalist)