LOGBOOK
Logbook is an intimate collection that weaves together Matthias Koch's private world through photographs and reflections.
Is contemporary photography boring?
Contemporary photography has a knack for disconcerting its audience. It chooses silence where the times demand noise. Where we expect the spark of emotion or the beauty of a gesture, it offers a blank wall, an abandoned chair, a void. We seek to feel, but boredom takes its place.
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.
Tribut to Daido, Anders and Jacob
I walk through photography as one ventures into an unfamiliar city—without a map, without a plan, just with the desire to get lost and see what emerges. Three names accompany me, like beacons in the fog: Daido Moriyama, Jacob Aue Sobol, and Anders Petersen.
Der Riß im Bild
Es begann mit einer Spalte. Einem Haarriß im Gewebe der Zeit. Dort: im Dazwischen; wo Licht zittert, wo Schatten schweben. Matthias Koch – kein Fotograf, nein, ein Sammler von Bruchstellen! Sein Eschaton ist keine Serie, kein Projekt, sondern eine Wunde. Offen, klaffend, atmend.
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.
Causse Méjean
Causse Méjean, april 2024. Causse Méjean is a limestone plateau in the Lozère department, in southern France. It is a part of The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Site.