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 little explanation by Tomas Leth himself, he studies painting under Prof. Daniel Richter at the Akademie Der Bildenden Künsten, Wien:

"I'm Danish, but grew up between Denmark and Haiti.

In Denmark, a Scandinavian country in the North of Europe, we prize ourselves on our similarity and cohesiveness. Our society is a society is built on the idea of an objective reality between humans. Of ‘objective’ and shared ideals and views.

In Haiti, a country shaped by the forced union of peoples with differing beliefs and religions from various different nations, there is a strong focus on the individual and the subjective. It's a place where there can be simultaneous explanations for the same things existing at the same time. The truth of existence is not necessarily viewed as either-or. This is something that I think Western thinking could gain a lot from.

In Brother I am looking for a mythical fraternity or a existential place to call home. It's a exists somewhere in a place of dream, endless miracles, magic and terror.

I am looking for the underlying connection between this place and reality, but the concreteness of it keeps evading me, fuzzy and murky like a dream long forgotten. My images are my ways of trying to manifest this place into concrete reality."