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May 2014 issue

by Markus Renner

On journeys all my senses are awake for new points of view of perspectives. I discover here those extraordinary views in which the world starts to shine in an exciting light. "Purity" symbolizes ideal clarity in which a moment transfers into lively pictures with timed depths. The perfect moment does not mean to me, the perfect staged photograph. I do not compose an idealized image of reality. My pictures are rather the visual expression of a time frame which I literally absorb with all senses. When I arrive at a certain place, I allow the encounter with this place to flow through my lense into my emotional world during my presence. I turn my view then onto certain shapes and shades which have attracted my attention by their uniqueness and their character. Like this, small details are especially important for the entire artwork. This created artwork language is a pure mirror image of my personal perception and goes beyond terms like day time, lighting conditions and light shade. Resting and moving are flowing into each other and unite in one picture my impresions and the richness of nuances in nature as a matter of face. I allow my camera to catch the moment of a photography in its whole. My pictures aren´t snap shots. Rather they invite the viewer to experience its creation in all its intensitiy and to see every "stroke of the brush". They invite the viewer to feel my art (as I do) with all senses.