RAW MOMENTS

In times of high-end digital images I have been controlling a photo and so the content of the image mainly and heavily by postproduction.

Often my photographs are the result of my own projection - what I am expecting - but did not happen. I am often limited in visual experience because I control seeming mistakes. I am discribing again and again my point of view in perfection by manipulation of the image and the image content.

RAW MOMENTS Technique

By eliminating (hacking) the software (for handling noise reduction, color separation, grain reduction and aperture settings) of an amateur digital camera, I achieved a pure digital chip file only controlled by exposing. This generates a digital image including all photographic optical mistakes.

The photographs of "raw moments" where printed without any digital manipulation . * 

1: ecxept adjusting the image to the printers profile. 

2: and except scaling, cropping and sharpening the image to the print output.

I started with the "Raw Moments" project in 2000 and continue to this day… The reason: often my photographs were the result of my own projection - what I am expecting- but did not happen. I am often limited in visual experince because I control seeming mistakes. I am describing again and again my point of view in perfection by manipulation of the image and the image content. I felt bound with these foreseeable, antiseptic photographic results. I felt bound by the high-end technique in my work as a professional photographer. With “Raw Moments” photography my process and technical strategy might be able to push my border of photography itself into a new way of viewing and understanding. With the project I am concentrating on content, perspective and exposure time of the potograph in order to use the chance to create (in parts) an unexpected image that expresses the view of my surrounding in a new way.

I kick off a new seeing.