ENTRY DESCRIPTION
"Beyond Myself", b&w, V120, 06/2019
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.” Susan Sontag/ On Photography

AUTHOR
Kati Bruder (1978, Graz) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (graduated in 2015), where Peter Kodera taught her how to use a camera. Since 2003 she has been working as a freelance photographer with a focus on portraits. In her photo series Kati Bruder explores the ambiguity of visibility, searching for answers to the following questions: how do our social status and gender affect our visual perception? What are we allowed to see by whom? What role is played by the symbolic significance of the gaze and what poses do we strike as soon as a camera is pointed at us?
Kati Bruder lives in Vienna and works internationally. Among other accolades, she was awarded the Austrian State Scholarship for Artistic Photography in 2017 and in 2015 the Advancement of Photography Prize by the City of Graz, the Audience Award at the Wiesbadner Fototage, and the commendation of the ‘architekturbild’ European Architectural Photography Prize. Exhibitions at home and abroad include: MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; Museum of Photography/Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin; DAM – Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt; Clervaux – cité de l’image, Luxembourg; Literature Museum, Odessa; StageOne, Zurich; Arebit Gallery and Getty Images Gallery, London; Alkatraz Galerija, Ljubljana.

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