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Camera As Weapon, 2023
Softcover brochure, 40 pages, Edition of 5
Supervised by Claus Gunti
Graphic design by Laura Csocsan
Each photograph documents not only the actions of the photographer, but also the encounter between the photographer and the person photographed. The resulting image is a product of both parties, and no photographer can claim to own the photograph completely. Every photograph bears the traces of this encounter, as Ariella Azoulay writes in her publication „The Civil Contract of Photography“. And Susan Sontag states: “The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: There is the surface. Now think – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.”
In “Camera As Weapon – Violence In And With Photography”, I explored the various forms of violence within the photographic medium, as well as the use of the camera as a defense mechanism and tool for trauma recovery. In particular, I worked out the difference between images that show violence and images that were taken with violent intentions.
„Camera As Weapon“, Thesis, 2023
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Gina Bolle
Gina Bolle is a visual artist and freelance photographer from Munich, DE who currently lives in and runs a studio near Marburg, DE. Her multimedia installations and assemblages deal with the dynamics of control and oppression in intimate spaces. She is particularly interested in the intentions behind certain photographs and the impact of visual memory on each individual. She holds a Master of Arts from ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne.
🤍 Say hi: hello@ginabolle.com +49 162 268 73 40 Instagram: @gina_bolle
Interviews and articles: Innovate Grant 2023: Honorable Mention — Art, Bowie creators: Social Injustice Through The Lens
Exhibitions: dkp / Spülraum, Lucerne, CH; BØWIE Gallery, Geneva, CH; CICA Museum, KR; MiM, Munich, DE; Das Zwo, Munich, DE; amongst others
Nominations and awards: Nominated for the Förderpreis 2024 der Landeshauptstadt München; nominated for Kunstförderpreis 2023 at Aichacher Kunstverein; Innovate Grant 2023, Honorable Mention; Winner Belfast Photofestival category „Photobook“ for „377. Inside India’s Queer Community“, Ireland; VG Bildkunst, Neustart Kultur, Scholarship Programme 2021
Photography clients & publications: ZDF Deutschland, Kammerspiele München, ZEIT Verlag, BISS Magazin, DER SPIEGEL, Stadt München, Münchener Biennale, GEO Wissen, Focus Magazin, Goethe Institut, Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin Online, Aktion Mensch, Herburg Weiland, amongst others
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