Bernd Sannwald

Bernd Sannwald photographs architecture but is not an architectural photographer. He searches for that which is not obvious – traces, structures, colours – and his photographic scalpel reveals what would probably have remained hidden.

Sannwald doesn’t change objects, but photographs them without emotion or subjectivity, reducing the chaos of what was constructed by humans to their formal, chromatic, material essence.

Bernd helps us explore perception; aesthetics come to the fore and functionality is ignored. His unusual perspectives liberate structures and details from their visual and contextual associations, and create something new, that we have probably overlooked. He searches, explores, discovers, reveals.

He looks for the unusually banal, the beauty in everyday life, that which is hidden, and shows what would otherwise have not been noticed.

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.” – Robert Bresson