Nikolaus Duennbier, born in 1982, lives in Munich and works as a teacher and photographer. While studying mathematics, which on the one hand inspired him and at the same time was not enough for him, he taught himself photography. Learning by doing, initially on film with his grandfather's old camera.
After forays into digital photography, Duennbier has worked exclusively with classic analog cameras on medium format film since 2014. Over the years, color disappeared more and more from his work, while at the same time the compositions became more reduced, clearer, more minimalist. The decision in 2019 to only photograph in black and white was therefore a logical step in his search for his own artistic voice.
The choice of his motifs, combined with sometimes very long exposure times, like those used by the first photographers in the 19th century, gives his monochrome images a timeless aura.
Duennbier's main subject is the interaction between people and landscape. How do people interact with the world, how do they shape and change nature? And what remains of their actions? Man-made structures in the landscape often have an unintentional, special aesthetic and, in the best cases, something sculptural. Usually this is not a design intention, but a function that shapes the form. As a mathematical mind, Nikolaus Duennbier finds most of his motifs here.
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