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.
A confrontation with selfie-culture
Jul 31, 2017 - Jannike Stelling
Nora Heinisch is a young photographer from Berlin. Her work is always about interpersonal relations. In particular, the look of the other on oneself. It deals with selfie-culture and self-expression today. We are in the state of permanent observation, of permanent becoming images. There are hardly places where we are not exposed to the eyes of others.
In her work Vorbilder Nachbilden, she places her protagonists in a room and gives them pictures of people whose gestures and facial expressions they are asked to imitate. They are posing with a self-timer in their hands and this way they are able to determine when they are satisfied with their reproduction of the given image. To begin with, the protagonists do not know that the entire shooting is filmed. So how does the behavior of the performers change when it becomes clear to them that not only the picture they are portrayed is viewed, but also their positioning in the studio?What happens when you get observed,- and when you know about it? Is your attitude changing and how? What do we do when we feel unobserved? – These are the main questions Nora pays attention to in her projects.
See more in the following link: noraheinisch.com/vorbildernachbilden/
And have a look on her webpage: noraheinisch.com