UNDER THE BRIDGES

Walter Oczlon's work UNDER THE BRIDGES not only speaks about the Alps as a living space, but also touches on fundamental questions about the medium of photography. Is what we see as viewers of the photo book also what the photographer saw?
Or is it a question of perspective, is it interpretation or a manipulation? Oczlon's images perhaps speak more about what we do not see than what is shown to us in the images: the endless band of vehicles that meanders from north to south and vice versa from south to north, the traffic of goods and goods in a globalized economy and, last but not least, the Mediterranean places of longing that are the destination of many travelers. Oczlon's look under the bridges creates a space that refers to the actual subject and allows the viewer's individual world to be reflected.
In his photo book UNDER THE BRIDGES, Walter Oczlon skillfully combines his photographic work with carefully thought-out book design to create an overall system that convinced the jury of the German Photo Book Prize.

Michael Danner, German Photo Book Prize