Freya Gerz: Sketchbook
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About The Photographer: Freya Gerz
Freya Gerz is a photographer living and working in Berlin. I also run a darkroom where interested people can learn the basic principles of analogue photography. In addition, I study philosophy at the University of Potsdam with a focus on film philosophy and aesthetics.
In my photographic work I deal with the aesthetic moment that can arise through contemplation. One walks in a forest, one's thoughts wander, one loses oneself in daydreams and suddenly one discovers something that would have remained invisible before. Be it an elderly gentleman taking a walk, a ray of sunlight falling through the trees, a duck rippling the surface of the water under which a world of its own seems hidden. I would like to share these moments of finding in losing oneself.