sporenland 2018
Photo emulsion on various Japanese Papers
Print and installation dimensions vary
Sporenland is the first edition of a series made in response to an encounter with a photo archive by an alpine photographer Heinrich Schildknecht (1874-1959).
A large part of the c.300 glass negatives are group portraits of mountain guides and clients, including men wearing moustaches, women in skirts and a child, taken on the highest peak in Austria: the Grossglockner.
A single glass negative, with mould and water damage, dated from 1906 was selected from the archive and used as a source material for this series.
Sporenland was installed at fotodiskurs, Augsburg in 2018 with an extensive accompanying catalogue, and one of the original images by Heinrich printed as counterpart.