Peter Benkmann

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Early experiments with automated art (music, drawing, light, writing, communication).

Development from “images that tell a story“ towards images that display pure artistical and aesthetical appeal. Motives which expressively serve my aspiration to be found in sand dunes, nude bodies, art objects and in architecture which are all characterised by the interaction of planes, lines, contours, swinging curves, play with light, colour and aesthetical arrangement. Most of these features can be found in contemporary architecture, which became significant for my development in photography.
Architecture allows me to deal with another aspect, with space. Space can be the vastness of a coal field with the huge power plant in the rear dwarfed by sheer distance. With buildings and their metall and glass surfaces, the experience of space expands, as there are transparencies and reflections that expand the visual space and create an artificial unity beyond the single elements and layers in the image. Also light can expand this experience from the inner to the outside and display a new unity. Another characteristic trait in dealing with space and the combination of several layers of expression in the image into a united appearance is achi...

Commended 2015 - World Photography Organisation - Architecture
http://worldphoto.org/images/image-gallery/26228/?page=2

Beijing, China: PHOTO Beijing, Beijing World Art Museum

Berlin, Germany: Willi-Brandt-House

Bratislava, Slovakia: Month of Photography, Home of Art

Brussels, Belgium: Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts

Catania, Italy: Catania Aeroporto Fontanarossa, Spazio Norma
 
Cologne, Germany: Photokina, koelnmesse Trade Fair and Exhibition Centre

Delhi, India: Stainless Gallery
 
Hunan, China: China Phoenix Photography Biennale, Hunan, Fenghuang

Lianzhou, China: Lianzhou Foto Festival, Guangdong, Lianzhou

Liverpool, UK: Liverpool One 
 
Lishui, China: Lishui Photo Fest, Lishui Museum of Photography, The Oil Pump Factory
 
London, UK: Somerset House

Moscow, Russian Federation: Gallery photographer.ru

Melburne, Australia: Obscura Gallery

New York, USA: Powerhouse Arena

Paris, France: Salon de la Photo

Pingyao, China: Pip Festival, The Cotton Mill Factory

Rio, Brazil: CCJF
 
Tokyo, Japan: Gallery 21

Yixian, China: Yixian County Photography Festival, Anhui -Yixian County