THOMAS HOEPKER | MitMenschen - Von Nonnen, Hippies und Akrobaten
In the organizer's words:
Current exhibition at the Leica Gallery Stuttgart:
The exhibition shows an important part of Thomas Hoepker's photographic life's work. He only passed away in July 2024 at the age of 88, so the exhibition, which was put together by his niece Sonja Kruchen the year before his death, is a special tribute:
Largely unknown pictures were thus "rediscovered" in his archive. The focus is on the person, whose multifaceted everyday life tells the most diverse situations and events and whose visualized stories can sometimes be read like a book. As a photojournalist, Thomas Hoepker has traveled around the globe, documenting misery, poverty and famine, but also the beauty of nature and human existence. Hoepker is constantly interested in people and social issues. He is a humanist whose photographic approach is often associated with "concerned photography", or social documentary photography. His always alert and sensitive eye follows politically and socially critical images, in which a good dose of humor may also have its place.
The images presented mostly depict everyday scenes, funny situations, bizarre architecture or simply graphic situations. They include a bridal couple in Portugal posing for a photo with their wedding party, but the happiness of husband and wife is nowhere to be seen on their faces. Or a nun looking out of the side of a house entrance with a Klosterfrau advertising sign hanging above her head. Another motif shows the information board of a lending library in a window, under which puzzle books and dime novels are attached to clothespins.
The list of comic situations that make us smile is long. The pictures make one thing particularly clear: they show a photographer behind the camera who knows how to capture images of society in a stylistically humorous, subtle and relatively unagitated way with a well thought-out composition.
The photographs in the exhibition are available to purchase.
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