Analogue collages of variouse materials: newspapers, magazines, money-bills, analogue film, warning tape, plastic foil, monotypes, acrylic, marker, spraypaint, enamel, etc.

Collages

Series of analogue b / w photographs on 4 x 5 inch negatives, taken in moonlight at night with at least four hours exposure time.

Pale Moon

The staged photographs of The Great Masquerade are taken on 4 x 5 inch or 6 x 7 cm color negative and analogously enlarged by hand on Fuji gelatin photo paper ( RA-4 process).
In the series The Great Masquerade I assume archetypical roles related to nature. Or better: I `become´ the form of being I represent. All stagings of the series are planned in detail and performed by myself with a high (not only technical) precision.

The Great Masquerade 2010 - 2013

Talking to Ghosts are body-photograms on black and white analog Baryta gelatin photo paper in two or several parts, mounted on primed canvas.
The photograms have been made in public performances at galleries in berlin and Budapest in 2013.
The body photograms are unique copy (edit. #1/1).
The photo paper is slightly smaller than the canvases. There is a thin white edge (ca. 1 inch) around the photogram.

Talking to Ghosts 2012 / 2013  (Body Photogram of Live Performance)

The photographs to Garden Eden Performance mirror a mental state of our civilization. A perception of aimlessness and lack of meaning occurs as symptomatic for the lives of modern individuals. Philosophers describe this tendency as a shift of our perception: we see reality as something irrational. Vice versa, fiction is taken as fact. 
All photographs are planned in detail. They are staged with laities or professional actors.
All prints of Garden Eden Performance are strictly analog and mounted on Aluminum, framed with a white vanished wooden frame and protected by acrylic glass.

Garden Eden Performance 2007 - 2010

A fresh and undisturbed view demands foreignness: our own eyes seem to see sharper because we are focused on the unexpected. We have the chance to see connections, the habits of people, the architecture of public spaces and sociology more focused and without prejudices.
That is why I decided to put a filter in form of a bed sheet and a plastic wrap between my recording device, the camera, and the things, persons and places that seemed important: in order to be “one of them”, to get in touch. The shape of the sights got clearer by blurring their contours.

Invisible Sights of Budapest 2005

Collection of copper plate prints, aquatint, prints from milk boxes and collages 2010 - 2013.

Graphic Art 2010 - 2014

The Flying Fish is a series of staged photographs I did in Sweden between 2000 and 2003. The landscapes become a theater stage for surrealistic dream- and nightmare like scenarios in which the protagonists play archetypical rolls. 
The Flying Fish speaks about a world we are living in which resembles a mentally destructive machinery for people. 
    The images are taken on 6 x 7 cm color negative and enlarged on Fuji photo paper in RA-4 process ( fully analog). No digital editing or retouch.
    The series has been exhibited in The Gothenburg Museum of Arts and in galleries in Sweden, France and Germany.

The Flying Fish (2000 - 2003)

Budapest Love Stories is a work about mental desires and physical needs. A stay of teaching photography at the Budapest University of Arts should have included at least one love story, if I could have chosen. But it did´t so far.
This is a work of consequent autobiographical theater: I dissected my guest teacher´s room with my camera. The camera traces lapidary phenomenons, my eyes or mind sticked to unconsciously.
All the photographs are taken analogously on 6 x 7 cm negative and enlarged on analogue Fuji photo paper (RA-4) without any digital handling.

Budapest Love Stories 2005

The prints of the `Disaster Series´ are exclusively hand-made on thick Baryta gelatin photo paper. They are all taken with a medium size camera on 6x7cm black and white film.

There are two different sizes for the non-manipulated photographs available in the following editions:

Size: 18 x 15 inch ( on 19.5 x 15,6 inch white Baryta paper): Edit. #3
Size: 20 x 17 inch ( on 23.4 x 19.5 inch white Baryta paper): Edit. #3

The Disaster Series has been shown in solo exhibitions at galleries in Budapest ( Hungary), Berlin and Lübeck ( Germany).

Disaster Series 2013

Sandra in the Snow is a diptych. You can find the other part in my collection Sandra in the Snow. It consists of two staged photographs, each taken on 4 x 5 inch color negative and printed on analog gelatin Fuji photo paper (RA-4 process). The prints are mounted separately on aluminum with acrylic glass (Diasec® technology).
Edition 1 of #3 plus 1 AP. The work has been shown in the Art Hall Vaasa ( Finland) and in galeries in Sweden and Germany.
I did this images during a artist residency in northern Finland in winter. People there use to go to the sauna and then refresh in the ice-cold snow. So the imprint of a body in the snow is not only a very Finish phenomenon but it also gains a symbolic character, transcendenting the bare visual.

Sandra in the Snow ( Diptych)

This collection is about classic painters. In analog, staged photographs I create images which are not one-to-one representations of a painter´s single work but which translate the visual essence of him or her. Van Vermeer is the first one. 

Jan Vermeer ( Woman with Typewriter)

Analog c-prints on gelatin Kodak photo paper from 6x7cm negatives. Read details under each image.

Greetings from Space 2008

Analogue photographs on 6 x 7 cm negative and enlarged on analogue color photographic paper with RA-4 process. The ´Clothes Circles´ consist of seven pieces in different colors.
Edition of each #3 plus 1 AP. 
Different sizes available due to agreement with the artist.
The prints are mounted on aluminum with acrylic glass (Diasec® technology).

For producing the `Clothes Circles´ I poured water on clothes which I had laid on the ground in circles. The circles froze hard at minus 15 degrees Celsius. Then I placed them in a nature environment in a vertical position. Many of these clothes are a reminder of my mother who died two years ago.
These photographs are taken in January 2016.

Clothes Circles 

All works in this collection are unique copies. 
Alchemigrams are a mixture of the analogue, photographic techniques of photogram, chemigram and lumigram.
Please find more details in the description to the single works in this collection.

Alchemigrams 2009 - 2010

New Paintings

Paintings I made in my Berlin Studio 2008 and 2009.

Gibt es den Farbengott?

Seestücke ( Sea Pieces) is a series of six paintings by the size 47 x 94 inches, produced in a cooperation between Boris Duhm and Andreas Helfer. Both artists live and work in Berlin. The name `Seestücke` refers mainly to the long format of the canvas, which have been the only agreement between us. These paintings a the visual result of a dialogue with colours. Sometimes playful, sometimes a long struggle, sometimes  like a fight with two brushes.

Boris Andreas Duhm