Volker Kuehne

Although born in Canada I've been living in Bavaria most of my life. The landscape of the Bavarian pre-Alps and in particular of the Chiemgau, which is rich in wonderful motifs, has a deep impact on my work.

In particular I'm feeling inspired by special lighting conditions - be it light penetrating through tree tops in a dark forest, diffuse light in the early morning or evening hours ... The golden thread that runs through my work is the engagement with what's hidden. My focus is on motifs which in one way or another normally aren't visible and therefore are all the more fascinating.

The starting point of my photographic journey were landscapes, in which (by fog or twilight) much remained hidden. Through experiments with motion blur, my passion for impressionistic photography developed. The combination of motif, lighting and intentional movement of the camera (which in my eyes corresponds to the painter's brush stroke) creates atmospherically dense images, which appear painted with the camera.

By fascilitating imagination they create imageries, which seem to be settled between reality and fiction - magical sceneries which partly remind us of the illustrations of old fairy tales. The pictures themselves seem to tell storie...