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“Feierabend, Herne 1987”
Brigitte Kraemer
Brigitte Kraemer’s photo reportages are socio-critical and
humorous studies of everyday life chiefly in the Ruhr area.
A scholarship for a reportage introduced her to a number
of migrants in 1985. She photographed people from the
Turkish community as well as resettlers from Poland. Until
today, her work has become a visual history of the Ruhr
area: In the early 1990s, she met with resettlers from the
former Soviet Union, in the late 1990s with Albanians and
Romanies from Kosovo. In the German city of Hamm, she
took photographs – always using the virtually legendary
reportage camera, the Leica – during one of the largest
conventions of the European Hindu community.
“At the Kiosk, Duisburg 1987” and “Leisure Time, Herne
1987” both show private and common scenes that are normally
hidden from the public eye. This is not least owing
to Kraemer’s way of working, always trying to establish an
intense contact with the photographed and accompanying
families and persons over years. Both pictures convey in
specific situations the portrayed persons’ approach to life
– this is the focus of Kraemer’s photography. “Leisure
Time” and “At the Kiosk” surpass momentary cursoriness
and show, in their concentrated composition, the quintessence
of the relations between generations and genders.
Photographer, born 1954, lives in Herne.
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