Britta Strohschen Samba Brazil Love

"With her photo project 'Samba Brazil Love' Britta Strohschen has immersed herself in the world of horse racing. The motivational crux of her photographic work is examining the fascinating relationship between human beings and animals, from tender attraction and symbiotic energy, to utter dependence and the efficient exercise of power. Her interest in the horse racing universe, with its highly complex interaction of myths, is not to tell a journalistic story or present a classical documentary. In the image flow of various aspects of the sport, from the stall to the winner's cup, from fashionable women's headwear and proud jockeys, from betting slips to borderline physical exertion, she has succeeded in piecing together a variegated visual sequence like a puzzle. The dramaturgy of the photographs displays neither a linear nor chronological ordering principle. Instead the layout encourages the viewer to succumb to a completely different rhythm. By changing pace constantly, snapshots of concentration are juxtaposed to the dynamic of human beings and horses at the boundaries of the action. The photography is in a position to lend the objects in the pictures their own language. With a fragmentary glimpse divorced from any causal relationships, they develop a very strong aesthetic presence. They become the building blocks of a narrative which stimulates the phantasy of the viewers, urging them to create their own image. The photographer is not concerned with how the world of horse racing ought to appear. Her viewpoint is completely anti-ideological, her fascination for the subject being guided from a critical distance. By doing so she avoids the trap of creating a myth or surrogate which simply connects the various dots of perception." (Wolfgang Zurborn)

Britta Strohschen lives in Rösrath/ Cologne in Germany. She is a graduated biologist having studied at the University of Bonn/ Germany and at Macquarie University in Sydney/ Australia where she lived for four years. Back to Germany she worked with an internal consulting group for a number of years. However, photography was always on her mind and became a major part of her life: She completed her studies at the Fotoakademie Cologne and joined the Masterclass of Wolfgang Zurborn, photographer and member of the steering committee of the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie. Britta Strohschen is member of Freelens e.V. and of VG Bild-Kunst. Her photographs were shown in several single and collective exhibitions, among others at Galerie fiftyfifty in Düsseldorf www.fiftyfifty-galerie.de/galerie/ , at Kunst für Obdach - E.ON, at ART.FAIR KÖLN and with Freelens. In 2017 she is exhibiting in several cities in Germany showing her photographs directly related to her book ALARM- Adrenalin und Seele, as a tribute to the great job rescue people are doing day by day for our societies.
Published books are: ALARM – Adrenalin und Seele, IECP Verlag, Rösrath 2016 Samba Brazil Love, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2014 (German Photo Book Prize – Nominated 2015) Gen 1:26, Asphalt Verlag, Düsseldorf: fiftyfifty edition, 2013.

Further details: www.britta-strohschen.de

Hardcover 28,5 x 18,8 cm 100 pages 78 color and b/w illustrations English, French, German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-538-3 2014

Artist:

Britta Strohschen

Texts:

Wolfgang Zurborn

Design:

Kehrer Design

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Awards

Selected title German Photo Book Award 2015

Exhibitions

Freelens, Cologne
16. – 21.09.2014

Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf
27.11.2014

ART.FAIR KÖLN, Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg
24. – 27.10.2014

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