Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

FIRN

Oct 20, 2022 - Franziska Ostermann

Firn is a form of snow that outlasts a defrosting period and increases its density over time. At the act of photographic self-portraiture I am the photographed and the photographer at the same time. I face myself. I am spatially separated from me by the camera. My ego is doubled in space as well as in time – or is it split? I recreate this duality of the trigger-pulling moment in the composition of the images.