Overview participating exhibitions
Data Rush
2015
Data Rush
Hannes Hepp
Not So Alone – Lost in Chat Room (2012-2015)
Hannes Hepp’s photomontages portray the invisible, global, digital espionage activities of the NSA and other security forces, but also the continuous alienation and isolation of ordinary citizens in the virtual world. The portraits in the series come from public chat rooms, where the persons depicted tempt visitors with the prospect of more explicit sexual images so as to entice them to pay for ‘private time’. The viewer is therefore simultaneously a voyeur and an object of voyeurism. Just as the photographer may have been spied on by security forces whilst making the photomontages in his studio.
Act of Faith
2007
Act of Faith
Hannes Hepp
Johannes Hepp
Johannes Hepp makes a systematic study of places where terrorists have been active. Sometimes days, sometimes years afterwards he visits cities where there have been bombings, gas attacks or suicide actions. His panoramic collages search for changes in the urban landscape. At the same time they show how life has once again returned to normal, despite the tragic events that took place there. In London Hepp photographed the four places where a day before a bomb had exploded in the public transit.
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THE DAYS AFTER (Great Britain, 2001-2005)
Johannes Hepp makes a systematic study of places where terrorists have been active. Sometimes days, sometimes years afterwards he visits cities where there have been bombings, gas attacks or suicide actions. His panoramic collages search for changes in the urban landscape. At the same time they show how life has once again returned to normal, despite the tragic events that took place there. In London Hepp photographed the four places where a day before a bomb had exploded in the public transit.
Biography
Hannes Hepp (West Germany, 1969) has worked as a multimedia artist and psychoanalyst in Brazzaville, New York and Buenos Aires. His work has been published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, fotoMAGAZIN and Photonews, and has been shown in various solo and group exhibitions.