The prelude to this year's exhibition season in Tönninger Biohotel Miramar makes the photographer Michael Ruff (b. 1961) from the district of Steinburg. He is a freelance photojournalist since 1994 (including the sh: z) act, his photographic work, but shows since 1985 in exhibitions. This suggests, that his photographs at the same time the documentary nature of his work as a photojournalist and emphasize the artistic perspective into account.
Under the title "country air" Michael Ruff presents his narrative photography. Impressions of Land and Agriculture, from March Geest and the West Coast take a different side of a landscape that is wrongly decried as merely provincial. His works show: even the rural has its own charm.
reflected in his photographs is contrary to all facets of Ruff's work: the photo journalism and his personal favorite themes of man and landscape.
glad he chose an unusual image details and changes, for example, quite consciously proportions, subject and viewer go so well in a new relationship to each other.
always forces you on the concept of objectivity and subjectivity is to reflect, but said that the photo journalism as a supposedly objective media to reflect the reality. But as Michael Ruff Commission itself, nothing is as subjective as photography. After all, who looks through the camera, always does so with an individual look. He interprets the reality of the picture - and a further interpretation joins added the perspective of the viewer.
photograph must be subjective, to be successful, for only then they can in the viewer a "eureka moment" cause.
" My own subjective photography is the search for the strange world in the familiar. A play of shapes and colors, the detachment of the image elements of their everyday existence, "puts it, the photographer himself Ruff
The selected images of this exhibition in harmony with their rural, regional motifs also with the current restructuring of the Hotel Miramar for the first Bio-Hotel in Schleswig-Holstein. The attached restaurant Wind Rose beats with his new head chef is also the new bio- way and used a only local, seasonal produce from certified organic.
Exhibition: 13th March to 29 April
"Michael Ruff. Landluft"
Opening: 13.03.2011, 11:30 clock
Introduction: Dr. Katrin Schäfer
opening times: daily 8.00 bis 23.00 Clock clock.
Biohotel Miramar, Westerstr. 21, 25832 Tönning, Tel: 04861-9090.
http://biohotel-miramar.de http://www.ruffografie.de
media inquiries: Dr. Katrin Schaefer, info@kati.de ; 04841/939662
© Photos: Michael Ruff
brief bio hotel Miramar:
The eco-hotel Miramar Peninsula Eiderstedt (North Frisia) is only a few steps from the historic market square and the Tönninger idyllic harbor. The building, which has a long history, was 10 years ago by Uwe Peters, who is also the director still today, upgraded and expanded to a hotel with special flair, the North German tradition with an almost Mediterranean atmosphere. In 2011, the hotel will also restructured the first organic hotel in Schleswig-Holstein.
The eco-hotel is wheelchair accessible and offers a number of special arrangements for individuals or families, the ideal setting for meetings and receptions.
The attached restaurant offers Windrose seasonal and typical regional dishes as well as menus for special celebrations. Since March 2011, the restaurant is also certified with the organic seal. It will only be certified organic products used and respected also on regional and seasonal offers.
feels the last few years, the eco-hotel Miramar and the promotion of art and culture bound and presented several times in exhibitions by regional and internationally known artists.
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