• Black and white photo of a young woman with short dark hair and light eyes, wearing a veil with floral decoration.

    Todtnauberg: Inherited Fault Lines

    come from there. Or not far from it. So: not innocent.
    The forest Heidegger looked at — I breathed it.
    Not by choice. By origin.

  • Heidegger, Nietzsche, and the Cycle of Shadows: Todtnauberg or The Eternal Return.

    Heidegger, Nietzsche, and the Cycle of Shadows: Todtnauberg or The Eternal Return.

    I come from there. Or from nearby. So: not innocent.
    The forest Heidegger gazed upon — I breathed it.
    Not by choice. By origin.

  • Photographing Against the Machine-World — What Vilém Flusser Still Tells Us

    Photographing Against the Machine-World — What Vilém Flusser Still Tells Us

    “The photographer does not merely play with the apparatus — he is also played by it.”
    — Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1983)

Logbook is an intimate collection that weaves together Matthias Koch's private world through photographs and reflections.

Against the Master-Image: Toward a Phenomenology of Seeing
Matthias Koch Matthias Koch

Against the Master-Image: Toward a Phenomenology of Seeing

In an age dominated by assertive, spectacular images, this essay calls for a different kind of photography — one rooted in uncertainty, silence, and perception. Against the authoritarian logic of the master-image, it explores a phenomenological approach that resists capture and reclaims the act of seeing.

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Archipelago
Matthias Koch Matthias Koch

Archipelago

This is how I work—through resonances, through subtle shifts. Only later does the whole begin to take shape, a title emerges, a sense begins to surface. I move slowly, guided by intuition, inner echoes, traces left by the world.

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Photographing to Dwell in the World
Matthias Koch Matthias Koch

Photographing to Dwell in the World

Heidegger said that man dwells poetically in the world. It is a phrase that invites us to slow down, to listen to the silence of things, to see the detail that escapes us. Perhaps photography is the ideal tool for this: an art of capture that does not confine but reveals.

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Self portrait
Matthias Koch Matthias Koch

Self portrait

The self-portrait of a shadow is a paradox. It is not the face we expose, but an absence—a fleeting silhouette cast upon the ground. The shadow is a shifting sketch, elusive and intangible. The photographer withdraws, leaving behind a trace without detail, without a face, as if seeking to disappear within his own portrait.

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