Collection: Stephan Göttlicher

The act of creating a photograph is very sensitive for German photographer Stephan Göttlicher. He believes that, in our time, the distinctions occur in the moment of seeing things: he needs to take the photo when it comes to him. There is also the aspect of the working process itself. Göttlicher was trained classically, but loves technical faults and mistakes and doing things in ways they shouldn’t be done. Göttlicher came to photography from dance – spending about fifteen years studying and then working as a professional ballet dancer in Germany, England, and Switzerland. 

The German photography tradition is strongly present in Göttlicher’s work. The objective black and white photographs can be compared with post-war German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, the famous founders of the Düsseldorf photography school and their equally famous students such as Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth.