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Conceptual Series

Lilo Mangelsdorff

Photographer

Lilo Mangelsdorff

Memory Affairs

Referring to Susan Sontag „with the help of photographs, every family constructs a portrait chronicle of itself“. I inherited a box with a lot of old photographs and I have given these old photographs of my mostly unknown family and friends a new face. This transformation accents the representation of the body. The concept of hiding the faces reveals and examines the potential of the image, and sensitizes our perception.
The concept of this project is to hide the faces with natural material which I find in my surrounding. Covering the faces is to make the individual more abstract, like using a mask. In this case, hiding the face in photography sharpens the gaze to see and to read the posture, the gesture, arrangement, and representation. With this project, I would like to bring people to see behind the surface and to provoke and question ironically the representation.

Lilo Mangelsdorff

Born and after some excursions again living in Frankfurt am Main. After studying visual communication I worked as a filmmaker and got international recognition. I turned my focus on photography in the last years, now switching between moving and still images.