Background information
"Five continents, three decades: Olaf UNVERZART shows us with the photo book 'Walking Distance' his interpretation of a travel diary. Beyond sights, well-known places with supposedly country-typical folklore, his photo book opens the view for the things and living beings in between - an in-between, which mainly takes place on the street.
Content
In the photo volume 'Walking Distance' by Olaf UNVERZART, the power of the images lies in the stillness and intimacy of the scenes. These photographs have nothing curious about them, do not pretend to bring to light essential insights and truths about places or their inhabitants, but present themselves as fleeting impressions. The fact that the individual photographs, in their black-and-white composition and grainy texture, have an unlocalizable, peculiarly time-distant quality lends them an almost universal character. In terms of content, the photo volume plays with the most diverse types of transition. We see cars, rails and streets as well as passers-by and pedestrians. Scenes of the obsolete and the obsolete refer to the photographer's search for lost time and repeatedly allude to the drastic cultural, social, and technological changes of the last three decades." (slightly adapted text, © Verlag Kettler, 2022)