A close-up black and white photograph of a textured, circular object with a small hole in the center, surrounded by darkness.

Not things. Their echo.

(b. 1964) — Matthias Koch German photographer based in Ardèche, France. Works presented as series, books, and exhibitions.About — Contact

Snow-covered ground with a narrow stream running through the middle, surrounded by footprints and some bare branches overhanging.

→ TODTNAUBERG

My grandfather was a Nazi. I grew up in the Black Forest. Todtnauberg begins where beauty and complicity share the same soil.

A small, patterned slug on a wooden surface, leaving a trail behind.

→ RESONANCES

The land remembers. Not as archive, not as monument — but as texture, as light, as the slow persistence of what has no voice. Resonances is an act of listening.

Group of people standing on a rocky hilltop, some with hats, some taking photos, outdoors in bright sunlight.

→ UNHEIMLICHKEIT

Something is wrong, but nothing has happened yet. Unheimlichkeit photographs that suspension — a present already marked by its own end, familiar and irreparably strange.