Katja Gehrung

Songs can evoke intense images in us. They are usually a confused mélange from memories, wishes and projections. While music styles are constantly changing, they remain the content of the love songs over time surprisingly consistent throughout. Continues to go it's about longing and hope, about loneliness and loss, but also about intimacy and happiness. I developed the Love Notes against the background, that I often find situations like frozen Lines of a song lyric occur. Relevant Pop songs provided the framework for what happened I both beyond and within common Stage clichés in my photographs. The I'm looking for dripping heartbreak romance Wit and irony, sometimes with empathy and devotion to encounter.

In the Poetry Notes I refer to classics world literature, but also modern poetry and prose. Hannah Greens gave me the impetus for this autobiographical novel I never gave you one Rose garden promised. Also in this series the images should convey feelings in a way which allows individual ideas to transfer it to them, so to speak, to transfer oneself into the respective one to project the scene into it. The mid-20th century on the occasion of Garden show redesigned Fürth city park was ideal for this work. In my homeland gave the botanical garden University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart is an ideal one picturesque backdrop. The Hermitage in Bayreuth or the surrounding area of Nuremberg also offered attractive motifs for the poetic spectrum inspired photographs.