Das Flüstern der Dinge

In 2008, Swiss artist Thomas Krempke began photographing daily. He prints these images and pastes them into notebooks, relating them to one another and writing about them. This creates a record of his perception, a photographic diary, a cartography of his seeing. He photographs where he is, what he encounters. He removes nothing, adds nothing, not even light. Krempke's images do not depict extraordinary events, wars, poverty, or exotic landscapes, but rather what is called everyday life. Yet, photographing changes this everyday life - the world is no longer the same, the gaze increasingly looks beyond the appearances of daily life, and an almost microscopic journey of discovery unfolds through the previously unseen and undiscovered. Everyday life reveals itself in new dignity and poetry, the significances.