Bernhard Quade

"All my life I have been interested in ways that nature changes people. And how people change nature, and how it all changes people further.

My photographs are like this process - I want to focus on the essential parts - The Nature - and I want the observer to let himself concentrate more on the objects which influence our surroundings, our lives, our thoughts, and desires... And in turn, be influenced by them. In my work I want to show opposite desires - A Silence - A Standstill - But also the movement and Tension which we find all around us. This is the Power of Nature which changes our lives.

To show our desires, to increase these sensations I often change the contrast and color and take multiple shots of the same subject in different lighting conditions. I can combine these different shots to create often impossible lighting conditions. Without human form in my work the observer is drawn into more "space", to enter a new romantic world which creates a silence and tension in the spectator himself. There are no special titles to my work, just a simple description - so the thoughts of the observer are not limited to my words alone. I hope everyone that views my work can find his or her own place in this "new" world - somewhere he wants to be. Where he wants to stay.

Submitted by CHROMA GALLERY