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Matthias HochBer

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BER 2017–2020: An airport with no planes, a terminal with no passengers. Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (code: BER) was for a long time a major project that never came to an end: half-finished, devoid of function, in a perpetual state of waiting. Over a period of three years Matthias Hoch studied this stasis, looking at the site through the lens of an analogue large-format camera, rather like an archaeologist: area by area, space by space—from the railway station to the boarding gate, from landside to airside—viewing it as a potential user might see it. The result is a series of images showing a mysterious construct—photographs of a place where the not-yet merely seems to have given way to a not-anymore: a picture puzzle of the time.

  • Spector Books
  • Languages English German
  • Release2021
  • Pages120
  • Format30 x 25 cm
  • ISBN9783959054393