Bernd Sannwald moves around the concrete, steel, and glass creations, which we call cities, like a geologist moves around a quarry: He searches for that, which isn't obvious, for hidden traces, for signs of tectonics, of cracks and deformations, of colors and structures and of how these change. His photographs...
Bernd Sannwald moves around the concrete, steel, and glass creations, which we call cities, like a geologist moves around a quarry: He searches for that, which isn't obvious, for hidden traces, for signs of tectonics, of cracks and deformations, of colors and structures and of how these change. His photographs are the result of this search. An accumulation of evidence of something that he has discovered and that without him, without his photographic scalpel, would probably have remained hidden forever.
Bernd Sannwald geht in die Gebilde aus Beton, Stahl und Glas, die wir Städte nennen, wie ein Geologe in einen Steinbruch: Er sucht nach dem Nicht-Offensichtlichen, nach verborgenen Spuren, nach Zeichen von Tektonik, von Brüchen und Verbiegungen, nach Farben und Strukturen und ihren Veränderungen. Seine Bilder sind das Ergebnis dieser Suche. Verdichtete Belege von etwas Vorgefundenem, das ohne ihn, ohne sein fotografisches Skalpell vermutlich dauerhaft unsichtbar geblieben wäre.
