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Krise?“ Fragt Mich Der 46-Jäh- Rige Gleich Zu Beginn Unseres Gesprächs er mit Rob Hornstra über die Krise in der Fotogra- Nach „The Sochi Project“ arbeitet fie sprechen will, wird nicht weit kommen. „Gibt der Niederländer Rob Hornstra mit es überhaupt eine Krise?“ fragt mich der 46-Jäh- rige gleich zu Beginn unseres Gesprächs. Ich ar- „The Europeans“ erneut an einem gumentiere mit dem Bedeutungsverlust des ein- fotografischen Langzeitprojekt und W hat sich im Kunstbereich längst zelnen Bildes, mit Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie, der immer größer werdenden Konkurrenz unter Fotografen und dass es niemals eine Nische jenseits von Galerien so leicht war, ein gutes Foto zu machen wie heute. Hornstra und Verlagen aufgebaut. Damian stimmt mir zu – und setzt gleich zum Gegenargument an: „Ich Zimmermann über ein Modell, das sehe unsere Zeit als Beginn der Blüte einer neuen Fotografie. Schule machen könnte – und viel- Und diese neue Fotografie wird etwas anderes sein als bloß das leicht auch machen muss. einzelne Bild.“ Der Niederländer betrachtet die Situation des- halb von der anderen Seite und beobachtet, dass die Fotogra- fie sogar aufblühe und sich öffne, weil sie nicht mehr an das Einzelfoto gebunden ist. Im Vergleich mit seinen Studenten – bis zum Jahres- wechsel war Hornstra Leiter der Fotografieabteilung an der Ro- yal Academy of Arts in Den Haag – sei er selbst ein „Old- school-Fotograf“, weil er nicht mit Bewegtbildern, Rendering f you broach the subject of the crisis in photog- und Virtual Reality arbeite. Doch jenseits dieser modernen, raphy with Rob Hornstra, you will not get far. “Is technischen Aspekte ist er mit seinem Vorgehen – sowohl, was there a crisis in photography?” the 46-year-old die Umsetzung als auch, was die Finanzierung seiner Projekte asks me right at the start of our conversation. I angeht – ganz weit vorne. Bereits 2008, als noch niemand über Ibring forward the argument of the single image’s loss Plattformen wie Kickstarter oder Startnext gesprochen hat, hat of significance, the attention economy, the ev- er sein Buch „101 Billionaires“ mittels Crowdfunding finanziert. er-greater rivalry among photographers and that it Das sei zwar mühsam gewesen, machte ihn jedoch unabhän- has never been so easy to take a good photo as it is gig von Verlagen und frei von gängigen Marktgepflogenhei- today. Hornstra agrees with me – and launches ten und Vertriebswegen. straight into the counter-argument: “I see this as the Zwischen 2009 und 2014 realisierte er schließlich mit preface of a heyday of new photography. And this „The Sochi Project“ sein (bisheriges) Opus Magnum. Mit ihm new photography is something different than a single stiegen Hornstra und sein Partner, der Autor Arnold van Brug- image.” For this reason, the Dutchman views the situ- gen, zu wichtigen Vertretern des „Slow Journalism“ auf: Gegen ation from the other side, observing that photogra- den Trend zu immer schnelleren und meist oberflächlichen phy is even thriving and opening up because it is no Nachrichten werden hier Geschichten und Hintergründe sehr longer bound to the individual photo. lange, besonders sorgsam und oft auch investigativ recher- Compared with his students – until the new chiert und anschließend in ausführlichen und vielschichtigen year, Hornstra was head of the photography depart- ment at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague – Crisis? What Crisis? What Crisis? Reportagen, Essays oder Büchern veröffentlicht. Und so reisten Krise? Welche Krise? Hornstra und van Bruggen nach der Bekanntgabe der russi- he is a self-described “old-school photographer” be- schen Schwarzmeerstadt Sotschi als Austragungsort der Olym- cause he doesn’t work with moving images, render- pischen Winterspiele 2014 innerhalb von fünf Jahren elf Mal für ing and virtual reality. Yet beyond these modern, jeweils mindestens einen Monat in das Konfliktgebiet im Nord- technical aspects, he is well ahead with his method kaukasus – natürlich nach Sotschi, aber unter anderem auch – as concerns both the realization and the funding of nach Georgien, Abchasien, Nordossetien-Alanien, Tschetsche- his projects. Back in 2008, when nobody was talking nien, Karatschai-Tscherkessien und Dagestan. about platforms such as Kickstarter or Startnext yet, Zur Finanzierung des Projektes und ihrer Reisen bauten he financed his book “101 Billionaires” by means of sie sich eine komplett eigene Crowdfunding-Infrastruktur in crowdfunding. He says that while that was a lot of Form einer Website mit angeschlossenem Shop auf. Die Unter- effort, it did, though, gain him independence from stützer, abgestuft nach Bronze-, Silber- und Gold-Mitgliedern, publishers and free him from established market con- wurden so zu Freunden und Weggefährten, die sich auch ide- ventions and distribution paths. ell mit dem Projekt verbunden fühlten. Sie gaben Geld und er- Finally, with “The Sochi Project”, he realized hielten als Gegenleistung (je nach Summe) Zugriff zur Website, his (previous) magnum opus between 2009 and 2014. die jährlichen Publikationen, Prints und wurden zudem nament- It raised Hornstra and his partner, the author Arnold lich in allen Ausstellungen und Büchern genannt. 100.000 Euro van Bruggen, to prominent representatives of “slow sind so allein in den ersten vier Jahren zusammengekommen. journalism”: in that field, countering the trend to- Das Projekt schlossen die beiden schließlich mit einem umfang- wards ever-faster and most superficial news, stories and backgrounds are researched at great length, with particular care and often investigatively too, and subsequently published in detailed and com- plex reportages, essays or books. And so, eleven times within five years, following the announcement Following “The Sochi Project”, Dutchman of the Black Sea city of Sochi as the venue of the Rob Hornstra is once again working on a 2014 Winter Olympics and for at least one month on long-term project with “The Europeans” and each occasion, Hornstra and van Bruggen travelled has long since built himself a niche in the to the conflict region of the North Caucasus – to So- art sector beyond galleries and publishers. chi, of course, but also to Georgia, Abkhazia, the Re- Damian Zimmermann on a model that could public of North Ossetia-Alania, Chechnya, Kara- – and perhaps must – catch on. chay-Cherkessia and Dagestan, among others. 47 vorhergehende Seite / previous page Aus „The Europeans“: Juozas in seiner heruntergekommenen Wohnung. Aufgrund seiner Alkoholsucht hat er den Kontakt zu Freunden und Familie verloren und wird mit Lebensmittelpaketen versorgt. From „The Eurpoeans“: Juozas lives alone in a small run-down apartment. Partly because of his alcohol addiction, he no longer has contact with friends and family. A volunteer from Caritas deliver a food package. links / left Dieser Junge hält sein Bein unter Sulfit-Wasser aus dem Matsesta-Bad. Vor ein paar Jahren wurde sein Bein durch einen Unfall verbrannt. Aus dem Buch „Sanatorium“. This boy is holding his leg under sulphite water from the Matsesta spa. A few years ago his leg was burned by an accident. From the book "Sanatorium". rechts / right Bücher und Poster, die Rob Hornstra und Arnold Van Bruggen im Rahmen ihres Sotschi-Projektes veröffentlicht haben. Books and posters published by Rob Hornstra and Arnold Van Bruggen as part of their Sochi project. reichen Buch ab, das als einziges in einem Verlag, nämlich beim ame- In order to finance their project and travels, rikanischen Giganten Aperture, erschienen ist. Das steht nicht im Ge- they built themselves their very own crowdfunding in- gensatz zur Selfpublishing-Philosophie von Hornstra, sondern ist ledig- frastructure in the form of a website with associated lich deren logische Fortführung und sinnvolle Ergänzung. Denn bei al- shop. Supporters, classified according to Bronze, Silver ler Leidenschaft für seine Projekte geht es ihm vor allem darum, mög- and Gold members, thus became friends and journey lichst viele Menschen zu erreichen – und das können sie mit einem so companions who felt an ideational connection to the Rob Hornstra großen Verlag eben viel besser als im kleinen Eigenverlag. project. They gave money and, in return, received „Mit einem Film hätten wir mehr Menschen auf uns aufmerk- (depending on sum) access to the website, the annu- sam machen können, aber wir sind nun einmal keine Filmleute, son- al publications, and prints, and were additionally dern ein Fotograf und ein Autor“, erklärt Hornstra, der mit seiner Fami- mentioned by name in all exhibitions and books. The lie in einem Arbeiterviertel von Utrecht lebt. Und Fotografie werde nun pair ultimately completed the project with an exten- einmal weiterhin von einem nur sehr kleinen Kreis wahrgenommen. sive book, their only one ever to come out at a publish- Diesen Kreis wollten van Bruggen und Hornstra jedoch so gut wie es ing house, namely the American heavyweight Aper- ihnen möglich ist erweitern. ture. This does not go against Hornstra’s self-publishing Dabei spricht Hornstra gerne von seiner vierstufigen Rakete. philosophy, but is merely its logical continuation and Die ersten drei Stufen seien das Buch, die Ausstellung und die Website, meaningful complement. Therefore, for all his passion die vierte und entscheidende die Medien, die über sie berichten. Alle for his projects, his main concern is to reach as many Stufen haben unterschiedliche Zielsetzungen und Radien. Mit Ausstel- people as possible, and they can do that much better lungen erreiche man nur wenige, meist kunst- und fotografieaffine with a big publisher like that than in their own small Menschen, nicht jedoch die Leute aus der Arbeiterklasse oder ande- self-publishing company, he says. re, die mit Kunst nichts zu tun haben. Dennoch sei diese Gruppe sehr “We could have made more people aware of wichtig, denn sie wolle tief in das Thema einsteigen, so Hornstra: „Sie us with a film, but we’re not film-makers, though, we’re wollen lesen, sie wollen sehen und sie kommen, weil sie sich dafür in- a photographer and an author,” explains Hornstra, teressieren.“ Wenn diese Besucher kommen, bestehe auch die Mög- who lives with his family in a working-class neighbour- lichkeit, dass sie das Buch kaufen.
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