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.

Here we can see four images taken from an photo essay about a book written by Haruki Murakami called "after the quake". I used the collection of short stories as a guide through Japan. The settings in the book and subsequently the locations for my pictures were rather bland as there was an empty beach in November, a baseball pitch at night or a lovehotel in an industrial town in the north. The idea was to find images which convey the feeling of being lost and alienated, not comprehending the outside world. The work was shown in a gallery for japanese culture along the release of the German edition of "after the quake" at the Frankfurt bookfair.