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Background information
The catalog volume with works by Tobias ZIELONY, winner of the Marion Ermer Prize 2004, was published as part of the exhibition of the same name in Weimar. In her accompanying text 'Behind the Block', the author Anna Reichert describes his group pictures as a recurring motif and places the prizewinner in the vicinity of the photographers Jim GOLDBERG ('Raised by Wolves'), Boris MIKHAILOV ('Case History') and Michael SCHMIDT ('Menschenbilder') in his preoccupation with marginalized social groups.
Content
Tobias ZIELONY took the photographs in the catalog between 1999 and 2003 in Bristol/Newport, Halle (and Chemnitz) and Marseille. They are reproduced in color, some double-sided, in pairs or upright and always with a narrow border.The illustrations are followed by a list of images with the dates of origin and names of the series:
- 'Valley Boys', Newport 1999 (five images);
'Car Park', Newport, 2000 (three pictures);
'Curfew', Bristol/Newport, 2001 (eleven pictures);
'Chemnitz', 2002 (one picture, 'Maik');
'Ha Neu', Halle/Saale, 2003 (ten pictures);
'Quartiers Nord', Marseille, 2003 (nine pictures).
Texts
Two greetings are followed by a five-page text in two languages (German/English) entitled 'Hinter dem Block. On the photographs by Tobias Zielony'. Further explanations of the photographer's motifs are provided by a conversation between Tobias ZIELONY and Alexander Braun entitled 'This completely incidental form of the social fascinates me', which is reproduced as a (bilingual) text. The volume concludes with a one-liner (also in two languages) 'Erkundungen der Randzonen. Notes on the work of Tobias Zielony by Kai-Uwe Hemken.