Rheinhessen as you've never seen it before.
Between the familiar and what lies beneath.
15 colour photographs. Rheinhessen, 2015–2019
Everyone knows Rheinhessen. The rolling hills, the rows of vines, the light in October. You drive through and think: I know what this looks like.
This series challenges precisely that.
Between 2015 and 2019, I walked and drove through this landscape, but not to document it, rather to capture something that lies between the lines.
That moment when the familiar suddenly becomes unfamiliar. When a vineyard ceases to be a vineyard and begins to tell a different story.
Through deliberate camera movement during exposure – Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) – the subject’s outline dissolves. What remains is no longer an image, but an imprint:
of light, of movement, of the very act of seeing.
The 15 photographs in this series do not follow a set narrative structure. They do not come together to form a story with a beginning and an end. Each image is a moment of pause in its own right, a moment that lingers.
The rows of vines in May, just before the growing season really gets underway. The delicate tips of the shoots seem to be stirring as if they have something urgent to say, yet at the same time they appear to be biding their time.
120 × 80 cm | 890 €
Zornheim. May.
The light falls through the first leaves, as if they were glowing from within. What you see is less a plant than a state of being.
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A circular motion that draws the vine into the centre. The image looks back.
The transitions between green and yellow – lasting barely a day – are condensed here into a single moment.
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Hills near Mommenheim, June. The rows of vines draw the eye upwards, offering no answer.
The panoramic format captures this vastness; it conveys it.
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October. The vines burst into a blaze of yellow, as if giving it their all one last time before winter arrives.
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Near the Zornheim Wine Pavilion, on an October day when the landscape is already quietly bidding farewell. There is hardly anything left, and that is precisely what makes such an impression.
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August. A vine leaf in the wind and a circular motion that turns it into a kind of whirl. The green remains, but the stillness is gone.
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Green grapes, still a long way from what they are meant to become.
Das Bild dreht sich um sie herum, als wolle es das Versprechen festhalten, bevor es sich einlöst.
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Schwabenheim, May. A drive through the Rhine-Hessian countryside, a tree standing sentinel, the vines swirling around it. The scene has a captivating quality that is hard to put into words.
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Zornheim, March. The vine stakes lead uphill, towards something undefined. You follow them, not knowing what lies ahead.
The image poses a question and leaves it unanswered.
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May, but with an autumnal glow.
The season is deceptive. The rows of vines are strict and regular; movement makes them appear fluid.
What you see depends on how you look at it.
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Two branches that almost touch, forming a window.
Behind it: the vineyard as it prepares for winter dormancy.
There is something threshold-like about the picture; you stand in front of it and hesitate.
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A single vine shoot, October, Wahlheimer Hof.
A deep red, in motion.
If you look long enough, you can see faces in them, or at least you think you can.
The image plays on precisely this boundary.
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Halloween, Hahnheim.
The red of the vine leaves takes over everything. The vines themselves are barely visible anymore.
Or are they?
The picture is a question you answer yourself.
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November, just before nightfall.
A vine, almost bare of leaves, against the blue of twilight. The only image in this series that leans towards stillness rather than movement.
80 × 53 cm | 490 €
The works in this series were created between 2015 and 2019 and were printed in 2019 as a limited first edition. Most of the works exist in an edition of 1/1, plus a maximum of two artist’s proofs.
The dimensions and prices for this product are fixed and cannot be customised.
All prints were produced by WhiteWall on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, as glossy gallery prints on 3 mm aluminium Dibond with an aluminium frame and 2 mm acrylic glass.
Each piece comes with a certificate of authenticity, the artist’s stamp and a personalised art passport, all hand-signed by the artist.
All the images in this series were created using the Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) technique. This involves deliberately moving the camera during the exposure. Horizontally, in a circular motion or in a sweeping arc, depending on what the moment calls for.
The resulting motion blur is neither a flaw nor a correction. It is the image itself.
What you see was created at the moment the photograph was taken.
Rheinhessen is a region you think you know.
This series is an invitation to take another look at that.
Not because the images provide answers, but because they begin where the obvious ends.