ABOUT

Peter Helm

Raised in the Rhineland

Study of Computer Science and Mathematics at RWTH Aachen University
During this time, intensive contact with the photo scene in Germany

1970-1989
Lecturer for photography at various continuing education institutions
Parallel work on various photographic projects

1997-2000
Various trips to Latin America

2002-2003
12-month stay in Central America, including eight months in Guatemala
three-month project: photographic works for the "Quetzalteco" (Biz-weekly in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala)

2003
Return to Germany: Constance

Memberships
Member of the Württembergischer Kunstverein
Member of the Konstanzer Kunstverein
Member of the Bodensee-KUNST.netz
Member of the International Bodensee Club (IBC)

Statement
The sight is important, not the technique.

My photographs speak their own language of light and of objects that are presented in an extra-ordinary way. This can be caused by different media: a moving surface of water, a glass pane, ice, sunlight, a flash or . . .

One could almost think that the images were digitally manipulated directly on the computer, but nothing like that. No AI was used either.
They take the viewer on a journey into another world, they often seem like a dream-like, nonetheless realistic representation. It is the light itself that directs and draws mystical, enigmatic pictures that inspire the imagination. In this way, the viewer is immersed in a world that sometimes only exists for a fraction of a second, only to immediately change its shape with the changing light. It is a world in flux, a subjective world of perception that has nothing to do with the supposed objectivity of the medium photography. It is a cosmos of reflections, reflections and superimpositions of different, unfamiliar levels of reality.