Jungle Warning
This series shows scenarios that are cut out of reality and come together to form remarkable moments. I don’t want to expose or show off, but rather focus on the mysterious, the inconspicuous, often fleeting. My pictures are intended to raise questions rather than provide answers, to open up spaces and take the viewer into a world of their own, my personal perspective.
Since 2013, I have conceived ‘Jungle Warning’ as an open series and have continuously added to it - both when travelling and in my home city of Cologne. With my situational seeing and recognising, I often put together picture elements found in the camera viewfinder like a collage without changing my reality through subsequent manipulation.
Beyond any documentary claim, in this series I consciously concentrate on the ‘in-between, behind, beside’ of our human-dominated world, in which nature - the ‘jungle’ - plays an increasingly subordinate role.