Statement by the photographer, Oliver SIEBER
"The idea of a diverse group still urges me – a community of individuals, including artists, musicians, transgender or blind people, older people, members of different subcultures, activists, some friends,lots of strangers I want to get to know; people dancing, audience at concerts or exhibitions, everyday people I just meet for just a moment in everyday situations; a woman at a streetcorner, waiting at a traffic-light in Düsseldorf, a protestor at a demonstration in Tokyo, someone undressing." (© Oliver SIEBER)
Background information
"For the series in this photo volume, 'Album', Oliver SIEBER worked on the street, taking portraits of people in different situations and extracting them from these circumstances. The results are digital collages that insert the cut-out people into different spaces. Unlike, for example, in his series 'Imaginary Club', he did not focus on the face, but on the figure of the portrayed person: his or her movement, the moment when the camera captures a movement, the situation not clearly revealed and the movement of the body on almost 'freezes ' unreal sculpture. The relationship between sculpture and photography has always been of great interest to him. Photography can give the illusion of a real sculpture - the impression of a three-dimensional object in the two-dimensional world of photography.
Content
In the photo book 'Album' vo Oliver SIEBER the figures are loosely arranged, not by type, but the photographer combines the images with shots from street scenes or Instagram and other snapshots. In these juxtapositions of different images he creates an 'album', a juxtaposition of different ideas." (freely translated, © Oliver SIEBER)
About the German photographer, Oliver SIEBER (b.1966, in Düsseldorf)
Photo publications by Oliver SIEBER
- Format
- Pb., 22 x 26,5 x 1 cm, 124 foldout pp., 66 color ills., digital offset print on Munken natural paper, stapelbound, Ltd. to 100 numbered copies