Gaze 4 Photograph

Tobias Hildebrandt, photographer, graphic artist, creator, and conceptionist of digital media, lives and works in Vienna/Austria, Berlin/Germany and Hamburg/Germany. Born in Hamburg, spent his childhood in Kenya and Germany, studied architecture in Vienna. Early photographic experiences: his father let him work on his own photographic coverages and develop these in his photographic laboratory. Due to this early forming, he developed his own sight of photographic documentary in his environment. The approachment and dealing with people who he captures and photographs remains a very important motivation. Formal works take another large focal point in his photographic works. In these the architectural and creative side are reflected. Exhibitions in Europe, among others in Austria, Germany, Italy. _______________ Artist Statement: Photography is true copying, is illustration. The illustration of reality, the reality in context and it`s change in it. The illustration of a presentation, the capability of telling a story, of inspiring. Inspiration, creating new imagination. Photography is a dealing with, is an approachment. Photography is encounter. Photogrpahy can touch your heart. It can enlarge horizons, not only the photographer’s but also the viewer’s. Photography is allowed to be powerful and also to show weakness. This is my point of seeing, my claim, my demand.