Workshop Stefan Burger

Workshop Stefan Burger

Burrowstagram - asocial media today "Once i dug a hole in the ground close by the Karlsruhe Palace, with a swiss knife, in the middle of a meadow. The hole had the dimensions of 25 cm depths to a diameter of 15 cm. Holes are important in photography. With 1/4 liter of sparkling mineral water and a hand full of the excavated earth I mixed a soft and creamy fluid with which i lubricated my left foot. Tenderly i slipped the foot into the burrow and left it there for 37 days, eyes closed i listened to the sound of the birds and the wind in the trees."

Workshop (2016)

Students
2 BAPH

Burrowstagram - asocial media today

"Once i dug a hole in the ground close by the Karlsruhe Palace, with a swiss knife, in the middle of a meadow.

The hole had the dimensions of 25 cm depths to a diameter of 15 cm. Holes are important in photography. With 1/4 liter of sparkling mineral water and a hand full of the excavated earth I mixed a soft and creamy fluid with which i lubricated my left foot.

Tenderly i slipped the foot into the burrow and left it there for 37 days, eyes closed i listened to the sound of the birds and the wind in the trees."

ECAL/Younès Klouche
ECAL/Ardita Meha Photo: ECAL/Younès Klouche
Stefan Burger & ECAL/Ardita Meha Photo: ECAL/Younès Klouche
ECAL/Carmen Grange Photo: ECAL/Younès Klouche
ECAL/Ardita Meha Photo: ECAL/Younès Klouche
ECAL/Florian Amoser Photo: ECAL/Younès Klouche

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ECAL/Marvin Leuvrey & Yasmina Gonin
ECAL/Carmen Grange
ECAL/Carmen Grange
ECAL/Cécilia Poupon

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ECAL/Florian Amoser
ECAL/Florian Amoser
ECAL/Florian Amoser
ECAL/Florian Amoser

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ECAL/Florian Amoser
Making of by Stefan Burger
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ECAL/Nicolas-Guy Kunz

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