Already in 1985, the photographer Peter Helm published his first book on meditative photography: "Photographing with the Heart - Photography as a Way".
A few years earlier, he had translated and published the booklet "ZEN in the Art of Photography" by Robert Leverant into German.
And now he has remained true to his basic purist principles:
- sight is important, not technology
- after the photograph, the image is processed as little as possible
Most of the extraordinary pictures published here were taken on Lake Constance, but not as postcard motifs. One could almost think that the pictures were digitally manipulated directly on the computer, but nothing of the sort. Apart from cropping the picture and possibly a small contrast correction, no manipulation of the pictures took place.
It is the light and the water, together with the wind, that are directing the shots here and drawing pictures on the surface of the water.
Incidentally, the recurring questions about reality and perception emerge.
In addition, the photographer has inserted some ideas in text form, which he originally formulated in his photography courses.
102 pages with 60 full-page colour photographs,
text in German, 30 x 21 cm, Konstanz 2019, hardcover, autographed
PETER HELM ARTWORKS
