LOGBOOK
Logbook is an intimate collection that weaves together Matthias Koch's private world through photographs and reflections.
Dare to Diverge
How far should one go in taking risks? Far enough to feel honest with oneself, to carve a path even if it’s not followed. In a world where everything accelerates, choosing slowness and mystery is already an act of resistance. Audacity isn’t measured by its success but by the depth of its impulse.
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.