Artist Statement
”Every photograph is the beginning of a story, the first frame of a movie”
- Wim Wenders
The primary object of my work has always been to capture experiences that are sensory; the small things I see and touch that give structure to my everyday life, things that strike a mood and bring shades to the way of life. In my work I am influenced by the art of film. In series of photographs I seek to convey the feeling, ambience or potential stories that I see in the objects, happenings and people around me. I often work with layers, mixing various techniques and different photographic media. This multifaceted way of working with photography is not necessarily aimed to strike the conceptual note of the medium so much as it is a way of reaching certain aesthetic and sensory qualities. Photography, with all its possibilities, becomes my way of capturing feelings and moods, while leaving it up to the viewer to add the final layer of the work.
Susanne Wellm is educated from The School of Art and Craft, Institute for Unica, Copenhagen (1990-1995) but has been working with photography and photopolymergravure since her school days.
Wellm's unorthodox and poetic approach to photography emphasizes how photography, with all its possibilities, becomes a way of capturing the feelings, ambiences and potential stories that the artist finds in her surroundings. Wellm often works with layers, mixing various techniques and different photographic media.
Her works have been shown at, among other places, The Danish National Museum of Photography, Brandts in Odense, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art in Japan and FotoFest in Houston. Her work is represented in the collections of Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and in several private collections.
In 2012 she was awarded with the first prize at Fototriennale.dk in Odense. Her latest book Inner Landscapes was published at Kehrer Verlag in 2012.
Susanne Wellm lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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