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En passant

"[...] it remains unclear, whether Zitzlaff's photographs are scrupulously staged or whether they just are pretty ordinary snapshots. Those hermetical and – at first sight – rough compositions of architecture, individuals, and residues of nature elude explicit interpretation. Maybe it's us, the spectators, involuntarily striving to make sense, invent context, make up history, where just coincidence rules." Holger Nicolai, founding member of Springer&Jacoby, private collector, on Martin Zitzlaff's photographic edition "En passant".

While my clients, such as magazines, publishing houses or advertising agencies, almost always demand well planned, scheduled, predictable executive portraiture and corporate imaging, with my scenic edition I step up quite the opposite direction. All the attributes I love about photography are in here: fast, intuitive, unique, ordinary, authentic, and, besides: stolen from time itself.

If you should happen to fall for unstaged photographs from the real world (it's all out there, I've seen it with my very eyes!), this might be the right place to have a closer look.

zitzlaff photography, Lindenallee 44, 20259 Hamburg, Tel. 040-23518995

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Martin Zitzlaff
Hamburg, june 2008

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