Christiane Repenning

Photograhie

Intention - Motivation - Topics

Initially I experimented with “Analogue Black-and-White Photography” on special photo papers and as well as development possibilities of films and prints. I engaged in these techniques as part of my university education and professional development. Photography was the medium of documenting and interpreting habitats created by human beings.

Since the mid-90s digital photography offered entirely new, interpretive ways. I began to increasingly deal with art-expressions of objects, landscapes and lifestyles. Photo-Art today - in consequence of my artificial development - reflects the fascination, to grasp the subtleness of motifs.

An example is the series "Colours by the Sea”. It shows objects in relation to water, in which the relationships of colours blurs the boundaries of the objects themselves.

The Story behind...

1. Canoes

The early autumn-morning fog is hovering over the water-surface of the little harbour of a small East-Coast-town in the US. It seems to be sleeping like his inhabitants, only the bakery starts serving a freshly brewed coffee at the terrasse. Hot mug in hand, I enter the terrasse: there they are, a yellow, red, green, blue crowd of those canoes! They remind me of the last days of summer...

2. Lobster-Bows

After drinking a hot coffee with a warm pastry it's time to explore that old village. Some harbour-sheds show proudly their old bleched wooden walls, testifying of a busy and prosperous

Christiane Repenning

Biography

Analog Black-and-Whites to Digital-Colours to Photo-Painting

Experiences with Black-and-Whites, Light-and-shadow working with developing processes

Color-photography                                                 (analog)

Color-photography                    (digital - since about 2007)

Photo-Painting                                                  (since 2010)

Photo-topic: Botanic                 (University Mainz/Innsbruck)

Photo-topic: technical photography    (University Innsbruck)

                   Main part of my PhD in Economical Geography

Travelling around in the World -     always with my cameras

                            (Minolta, Leica, Olympus and Canon 5D)

Experiences with digital photography and Photo-Painting, Photo-Art

Presentations and Seminars about the Lifestyle of People

Concept and Organisation of Intercultural Travelling in Asia

Concept and Organisation of Eco-Travelling - CUBA, Central-America

An example is the series "Colours by the Sea”. It shows objects in relation to water, inwhich the relationships of colours blurs the boundaries of the objects themselves.

WORK

Travel & Experience Planning: Central-America
Photo Books of Hamburg, NY, Japan, Cuba, Laos, Cambodia (available on request)

Exhibitions
2010

Museum für Arbeit/Hamburg:                           Harbours
Weserterrassen/Bremen:                                  By the Sea - NY to Rockport

2011

Town Hall Reinbek :                                           By the seaside
Bildungszentrum Tannenfelde:                          NY - November-Impressions
Museum für Arbeit/Hamburg :                          Water and Colour

2012

Town Hall Library/ Reinbek:                              Water I
Town Hall Library/ Reinbek:                              Water II
Wasserturm Lüneburg:                                      Japan

2013

Filmhauskneipe/ Hamburg:                                Scenic NY
Due Barristi/Hamburg:                                        Cuba - characters
Town Hall/ Ahrensburg:                                      Cubas colonial past
Herzogtum-Lauenburgsche Akademie/           Cuba - Impressions of Paradise?
Wentorf bei Hamburg

2014
VHS/ Ahrensburg:                                              People in the caribacal paradise
Tow Hall Library/ Reinbek:                              Cuba - Art and Culture
Wasserturm/ Lüneburg:                                     Lost places by the Sea
Museum für Arbeit/Hamburg:                           By the Sea
Aurakure/Hamburg-Bergedorf:                          NY
Bildungszentrum/ Tannenfelde:                         Summer- and Winter-Impressions

2015
Ministry of Finance/Kiel:                                      Water and Ice (in colaboration with M. Priebe)
VHS/ Lüneburg:                                                 Central-America - quo vadis?
Town Hall/ Reinbek:                                           Hamburg, the Olympic Town
ZBW/ Jungfernstieg/Hamburg:                        Photo-Art - Lifestyle in the Carribean Paradises

On behalf of the Gallery we firstly acknowledge the land now known as Australia belonged to a Nation of People, widely sophisticated, Aboriginal people of Culture, With Gratitude to our Elders past, present and emerging, the Country's ancient Cultural heritage. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.
We hope that by sharing the Stories of the Artworks more attention is paid to the land supporting us through the emmense Generational Knowledge of this Country Aboriginal people have.