IN THE ORBIT OF EL TEIDE

Photographs | 2010 – 2011

The Project “In the Orbit of El Teide”, is a visual and psychological approach to the notion of the perspective.

Already in my 2006 – 2009 project “The Point of View”, I have been looking at various aspects of the viewing process and consequently decision making in photography in terms of the perspective and even more so the framing. And the consequences these processses have on the way we receive specific places by showing them each in multiple, very similar views.

“In the Orbit of El Teide” now focuses on the question of what can be seen or how much information can be gathered from only one single point of view versus the information, visual or abstract, one could gather by orbiting an object, question or focus point. In this way two different points of view of the same subject matter could differ in their look or feel already tremendously and might even not be recognized as the same subject matter anymore.

Like pieces in a puzzle, every image from “In the Orbit of El Teide” holds different visual aspects of the same subject, in this case the mountain El Teide. But other than a piece in a puzzle, each image appears to strongly stand on its own. And it is only through looking at these images one by one, that one realizes how much more information, visual aspects, perspectives or stories that can be told, there are to just one single mountain – or to basically any subject matter.