Logbook — MATTHIAS KOCH

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.

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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.

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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)

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

Tanargue, view from Chapias, Ardeche France, 12th January 2025

Self-portrait, Baie de Somme 25th May 2009

Lyon quai Jean Moulin 1987, early morning view from the first place I lived in France