Photo exhibition in b/w and color: "Do we take photos that others don't?" Harry Jantz and Rolf Kruse. Vernissage on October 5 at 16.00 in the Vorpommernhus.
Harry Jantz, Neubrandenburg - on the road with a camera - for a good ½ century. The story began at the House of Culture and Education in Neubrandenburg, then 2 years at the Cultural Academy in Puchow from 1976 to 1978. From 1976 onwards, he led a photo circle at the House of Culture and Education. Since then he has spent a week every year on the road with Rolf Kruse. With the camera. To a location/place. With a theme. From the House of Culture and Education into the world of cultures, landscapes, people and events. His photos - often b/w - have a documentary quality: meeting people, being close, being there with the camera + experiencing, capturing the typical in the moment. The picture is a document. The photographer is responsible for the result. With digitalization, technology, seeing and being seen and the documentary claim are changing.
Rolf Kruse, Klausdorf - attended the academy in Puchow from 1976-1978. A room-sharing relationship with Harry turns into a photographic friendship. Shared role model Sebastiao Salgado. And shared teacher: Hans Joachim Schubert. Rolf Kruse photographs sporting events for a newspaper. In the age of analog photography, a perfect school of seeing: capture the typical, capture the moment, trigger the photo. "In sport," says Rolf Kruse, "I call it the 'dead center', the moment that (for me) decides what happens next." Whether it's telling stories, characterizing people, capturing atmospheres and moods, capturing an expression: "Taking a photo that you can't get out of your head".
In the Werkstatt gallery in the Vorpommernhus in Klausdorf.
