Fotograf Magazine

In the last few years, Dorothee von Rechenberg has focused primarily on black and white photography. She is composing her photographs within series (e.g. recut, 2009, insomnia, 2008, songline, 2007). This working method obviously has a strong relationship to the aesthetic and narrative principles of film; by grouping situations in a line, she evokes the narration of a story or the spatial relation of objects and characters. However, the way of ‘story-telling’ in the images of Dorothee von Rechenberg is very different from that of traditional films.