Johann Karl - The Forbidden City Magnum Photographer

Johann Karl - The Forbidden City Magnum PhotographerKerber 2020 The municipalities of Wnsdorf Waldstadt, Kummersdorf Gut, and Sperenberg are located to the south of Berlin. Though most people are not familiar with them, they played a profound role throughout the history of the twentieth century, such as the Kummersdorf army testing station. Photographer Johann Karl (*1992) has gone on a biographical search for traces in the places of his childhood and numerous archives. In his visual research, both

self-portraits and other documents

Published by light-years and curated by Caterina Barbieri

a red-painted table become loaded with symbolic weight

A sense of humility emerges in consideration of the enormous scale

development

and of those who have contemporary technology incorporated into their bodies following illness or loss

hood ornament and various other items

in Ghirri’s words

large-scale digital collage which Hosokura created using clippings from old gay magazines

Bissiriou’s skill was in forging a connection with his subjects

but suggested

their fate always uncertain as human presences inevitably loom above