Ancestors

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  Gregor Schuster, India

Ancestors - Family Portraits.

In times of patchwork family relations we create new forms of social relations.
Still there is a strong desire to create some kind of informal family tree, to give everyone a place in our social environment .
By adding aristocratic elements ( Background, Hair, Setting…) to the portrayed persons i create a connection between myself and all the people in my life, as well as give them a relation between each others, making them my gallery of ancestors.
2012 work in progress.

born 1964 in Frankfurt/Main,
Graduation from high school in 1983,
Graduation „Lette-School of Photography“ Berlin 1987,
Freelance photographer since then,
Since 2005 Curator at the „Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie“.
Exihibition :
„Believers“ at the Selecion Atlantico, Photonoviembre 2011
„Supermodels“ at the Palm Spring Photofestival 2012
and Rencontre Arles 2012
„Blackwood“ at the Noorderlicht Festival 2012