‘Love’ is for the photographer - Katrin Koenning

For an image-maker, there’s often a silence that exists in the moments between seeing a photograph and making it. It whirls in the creator’s mind as a dance, forming a pattern of pre-emptive memories before the shutter is released. While some images resemble the reality of the scene, others are slices of it, packaged between lucid dreams. For German born photographer, Katrin Koenning, the medium is all about the latter. As she empathetically puts it – “what do the stories want from us?” 

Koenning’s gentle and ethereal narratives are born more out of intuitiveness rather than linear or stringent storytelling. This is possibly why her various projects drift into one another’s spaces, occupying multiple stories all at once. Whether it’s her reflection on family dynamics, or people’s physical and emotional connection to place and movement through language, culture, and continent; her work is always in conversation, traversing through fleeting moments that meet in a parallel realm.