Christian Richter

Before Christian Richter became a photographer, he grew up in an area that used to belong to East Germany. In 1989,
after the German Reunification, he was free to travel about. And so he did extensively without a camera. However, he
soon found plenty of intriguing sights on his home turf that he wanted to photograph.
The photographer developed a certain fondness for derelict buildings, some of which could have been listed and
preserved as cultural heritage sites, but which had fallen into irreversible disrepair. Of course, the entire nation could do
with a lick of paint after the fall of the Iron Curtain, but within a couple of years that was remedied with German
efficiency true to its own stereotype. No, this was very different indeed. These sights were abandoned for a mix of
known or unknown reasons such as lack of funding or their custodians not playing the tune of the authorities.
The locations were as diverse as factory shop floors, chapels or theatres, and what they all had in common was that you entered them at your
own peril. Once inside, you listened to their swan song before their collapse. In fact, in some instances you would have been safer entering the
buildings at the steering wheel of a roofed bulldozer tha...

December 2016 Abandon y Opulence Solo Exhibition Miami,United States

September 2016 Abandon y Opulence within Zona Maco Foto, Mexico City.

April 2014 Solo Exhibition Industry - und Filmmuseum Wolfen/Germany