Strawberryfields Forever
Editorial Design
Fotografie und Poetrie
2019
Durch die heutigen sozialen Netzwerke werden unsere Erinnerungen ständig geteilt. Das was man erlebt, wird verewigt und zur Schau gestellt wodurch nicht mehr der Moment an sich zählt. Er wird überspitzt und dient dazu die späteren mageren Tage auszugleichen.
Durch die kritische Auseinandersetzung des “teilen” unserer Erlebnisse, entstand ein sehr persönliches Buch über fotografisch festgehaltene „strawberry moments“ meines Sommers 2019. Geführt werden die Fotografien von einem Text der in einem leserhytmus den Betrachter durch das Buch führt und zum Nachdenken anregen soll.
(Einzelne Fotografien sind im Archiv)
Strawberry Fields Forever
What exactly does this mean?
Does it even matter?
Is it the picture itself or are the feelings created most important? Aren’t memories just snapshots of feelings or do feelings paint the memory? What happens to our perception when we remove all colours – objective emotion?
Can you then feel and see, as I do, or would we still be different?
Is there a ´right` memory?
Does that even matter?
What if I turned and twisted the elements in the image as to how I see it?
Would it still be the same world we know?
Did we know the same world in the first place?
And if we conserve the moment in the course of media forever, does it change the way we picture the moment?
Does it change the way we take the picture in the first place? Does it even matter?
Aren’t all moments composed of the ‘good’ and ‘bad’?
Isn’t this inevitable as we carry both elements inside us all the time?
Is it therefore never a question of repression but of highlighting?
Don’t we always have the choice to choose our perspective?
What does forever even mean?
Does forever end with me or with the end of social media?
Does it even matter?
Durch die kritische Auseinandersetzung des “teilen” unserer Erlebnisse, entstand ein sehr persönliches Buch über fotografisch festgehaltene „strawberry moments“ meines Sommers 2019. Geführt werden die Fotografien von einem Text der in einem leserhytmus den Betrachter durch das Buch führt und zum Nachdenken anregen soll.
(Einzelne Fotografien sind im Archiv)
Strawberry Fields Forever
What exactly does this mean?
Does it even matter?
Is it the picture itself or are the feelings created most important? Aren’t memories just snapshots of feelings or do feelings paint the memory? What happens to our perception when we remove all colours – objective emotion?
Can you then feel and see, as I do, or would we still be different?
Is there a ´right` memory?
Does that even matter?
What if I turned and twisted the elements in the image as to how I see it?
Would it still be the same world we know?
Did we know the same world in the first place?
And if we conserve the moment in the course of media forever, does it change the way we picture the moment?
Does it change the way we take the picture in the first place? Does it even matter?
Aren’t all moments composed of the ‘good’ and ‘bad’?
Isn’t this inevitable as we carry both elements inside us all the time?
Is it therefore never a question of repression but of highlighting?
Don’t we always have the choice to choose our perspective?
What does forever even mean?
Does forever end with me or with the end of social media?
Does it even matter?
Text: Jennifer Jane Schmidt