Lothars Wohnung (Lothar’s Apartment)
Christoph Schieder
Selfpublished
2015
Germany
Berlin
Edition Chrismon
Hardcover
978-3869212951
88
Christoph Schieder, *1968 in Cologne, completed a classical photography apprenticeship in Berlin. After working as a photographer and art director in advertising in Hamburg for over 12 years, Schieder has been living and working in Berlin again since 2004. Schieder is one of the last students of Prof. Arno Fischer. In addition to landscape and urban photography, he also deals intensively with the subject of family in his artistic work.
Christoph Schieder actually only wanted to take a few photos of the renovated state of his late father-in-law's flat for the workmen, for the search for a tenant. It turned into several days in which he repeated the photos he had taken there when Lothar was still alive in the empty flat, the lens pointed at motifs of the past that no longer existed. About his project he says: I wanted to show what stories are hidden in a flat that you can no longer see. But of course the photos also pose the question: what remains of a person?
Rainer Moritz has been inspired by the series of pictures to reflect on transience, farewell and memory. Text and images together make this book an impressive and personal testimony to the approach to the question of what remains when we go.
