About my Photography

I am trying to create a very specific emotion in the viewer and that is the feeling of stillness. The quiet that comes with it. Visual silence.

The process of taking my photos is fascinating to me. Seemingly contrary to my intent of creating stillness, every photo is the result of accumulated time, they capture the movement of wind and water and clouds and the change of light. Every photo is the equivalent of combining a thousand or even several thousands of pictures if they would be taken as a motion picture. Although my pictures might seem to contain an element of a secret life, a normalcy taken out of context, every picture is part of what we all see and hidden in everything we see are countless mysteries.

Another aspect of fascination for me is that every photo has a magical component while taken, something inexplicable happens in the process, although I pick the location, the frame, and the general mood, I never know the exact end result of any picture. There are so many factors that influence the outcome of each photo: a change of wind or currents, a small change of light can drastically alter the picture. Two pictures taken several minutes apart can look very different depending on any of these factors.

When you look at my photographs I hope you feel what I do when I`m sitting by myself in a church or looking at a beautiful landscape:  tranquility.

Mark Jungjohann  2018