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REM

REM sleep (Rapid eye movement sleep) is a unique phase of mammalian sleep characterized by
random movement of the eyes, low muscle tone throughout the body, and the propensity of
the sleeper to dream vividly.

These pictures represent a mixture of natural environment and dreamlike floating branches
and tree trunks. I play with waht we are used to see and recognize and the feeling that
"something is not right". When we dream ordinary situations but feel that something is
different...

In times of an endless flood of images & greed for perfection I see the necessity to look into an entirely different direction: The images is not enough, it is the abstraction and the individual view oft he beholder, together they reach into and below the surface of customary patterns of conception.
The imagination of the viewer supplements what's absent; what thematically is not dissolved receives an invisible layer through the observer.
All about evocation of thoughts, associations, emotions

Awards 2015, 1x Honorable Mention & 2 Nominations, 10th annual Black & White Spider Awards 2015
 
2015, 3x Honorable Mentions at the International Photography Awards 2015
 
2015, Gold – in the BFF (German Association of Freelance Photographers) magazine
 
2015, 1st Place – “Outstanding Achievement in Fine Art”, International Color Awards 2015

2015, 2x nominees in the categories “Abstract” and “Architecture”, International Color Awards 2015
 
2015, 2x “Bronze”, One Eyeland Awards 2014
 
2014, 2x “Honorable Mentions”, International Photography Award 2014, USA
 
2014, 1x “Honorable Mention”, PHOTOGRAPHY MASTERS CUP 2014

2014, 3x “Nominees”, PHOTOGRAPHY MASTERS CUP 2014
 
2014, 2x Gold – in the BFF (German Association of Freelance Photographers) magazine