"TOUCHED land SCAPES" - Landschaften im Wandel

For the Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2016, the tOG
Duesseldorf shows photographic work on the subject of the
landscapes as a transformation process of increasing post-
industrial phase in Europe.

The selected works of Michael Sander (* 1969 in Duisburg)
show three phases of transformation:
Touched landscapes, @work und worked-out.

Seemingly untouched nature opens the viewer to look as well
as landscape photography, that is transformed into abstract
industrial painting.

The photographic staging of factory landscapes in stage of
restoration creates impressions, that indemnify the viewer
whether he want perceive "worked-out" or "landscapes".
In Sanders work, the architecture does not seem to be in
contradiction to nature, it is found to be integrated. Sander
alienated not the perception of the landscape, yet it is not a
direct reflection of reality. Up to 70 individual photographs he
created by a motive, which he composes digitally.

Michael Sander overcomes the apparent contradiction of
documenting and staged photography and he opens our eyes
to naturalness and intervention.