Flæsh, 2013 -
Flæsh is a series of photographs that are taken in dark rooms of two kinds:
(1) rooms which are used for different photographic practice and (2) rooms which are used for sexual practice.
The projected footage portrays a gloomy kingdom which is a hybrid of many architectural fragments and different interior elements coming from all the spaces that I have visited during the years.
The photo-shooting takes place when the spaces are closed for users but ready to be used – completely dark. To move around in a pitched-black sight, I use the automat flash of an analog camera. Since my encounter with these spaces did not happen before, I get to know the space only after I have developed the films.
As a man who uses both types of rooms, I find it interesting to reflect that In both places the term “exposure” has a wide range of meaning. A flash in a photography dark room will burn the surface of a paper/film rendering the sheet unable to hold an image anymore while a flash in a sex dark room will reveal the users’
(1) rooms which are used for different photographic practice and (2) rooms which are used for sexual practice.
The projected footage portrays a gloomy kingdom which is a hybrid of many architectural fragments and different interior elements coming from all the spaces that I have visited during the years.
The photo-shooting takes place when the spaces are closed for users but ready to be used – completely dark. To move around in a pitched-black sight, I use the automat flash of an analog camera. Since my encounter with these spaces did not happen before, I get to know the space only after I have developed the films.
As a man who uses both types of rooms, I find it interesting to reflect that In both places the term “exposure” has a wide range of meaning. A flash in a photography dark room will burn the surface of a paper/film rendering the sheet unable to hold an image anymore while a flash in a sex dark room will reveal the users’
Various snapshots from dark rooms of both kinds
Black Hole Eclipse, 2013 - 2025
A series of unique photograms made with self made reversed camera obscura. theT images are projected screen shots of pornographic films where rectums appeared in the exact center of the screens.
Technical explanation part 1/2
Technical explanation part 2/2
Untitled, 2013
Silver print
25 X 20 cm
Untitled, 2013
Silver print
25 X 20 cm
Untitled, 2017
Silver halide print
62 X 50 cm
Untitled, 2017
Silver halide print
40 X 30 cm
Black Windows, 2017
Series of mixed media photo print on thermal paper
120 X 80 cm
49 X 38 cm
52 X 40 cm
70 X 38 cm
Ticket 2000, 2011
Empty self-portraits created by phot booths in every central train station in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Sixteen unique photo booth prints
Fourteen – 11 X 10.7 cm Two – 15.3 X 11.2 cm
#7 Mönchengladbach Hbf; 22.10.2011; 13:49
unique color print
11 X 10.7 cm
#13 Wuppertal Hbf; 20.11.2011; 12:59
unique color print
11 X 10.7 cm
Addendum
My Cock Collection: Addendum, 2010 - 2012
A4 Color print - image size: 5.25 X 7 cm
“My Cock Collection” is a massive database that I have created during 2010 – 2012. What started as a dick-document (a collection of thousands anonymous penises), collected via Chatroulette and later via Manroulette, became a broader survey of virtual reality.
What is a “Chat-Roulette”? The Idea is simple: Once logged into a certain web-page, people around the world are able to activate their webcams and randomly see and be seen by another party anywhere on the planet, free of charge and free of social appearance restrictions. Everyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, race etc. Furthermore, since there is no content control, people can do whatever they want in front of their cameras.
The Chatroulette concept became globally known when a bright kid from Russia launched the website “Chatroulette.com” in 2010. The new innocent social platform was a big hit everywhere and people from all around the world took part in it. Before long it became a sexual platform that served as an endless digital cruising space. The social and cultural implications were overwhelming and interesting. In the same screen and within a time frame of a few seconds, one could see an 80 year old man talking, a six year old kid eating and a teenage girl masturbating, one after another.
Although all types of individuals had the power to decide what they will do and show in front of others, there was one group that took over the majority of the visual content that was seen on this platform – Dicks. The climate in Chatroulette fascinated me and I have decided to explore and challenge the relations between Photography, Masculinity and Sexuality in the digital era; among many other subjects such as privacy, exploitation and consent.
Various empty rooms