Second take of the series In Times Like This

Land des Specks - street art from unknown (street) artist, Graz/Austria, (c) Christian Wagner, April 09

Recording the crisis

Why we’re taking photographs of beautiful people, whilst we are in the midst of a paradigm shift and the economic crisis is spreading?
Brain Ulrich shows himself surprised on his blog that not more artists react to environmental conditions. Inspired by his post Cara Philips wrote an interesting post The nature and purpose of photography, discussing why the contemporary photographic art scene behaves in this passive way. In the course of reading her interesting post, I came across some statements regarding differentiations of photography: art photography, amateur works, etc. Well – to be honest, I’m still confused about what in photography is denoted as art, as amateur work or scrap. But that’s an other story.

Never mind. Independently, I started taking photos of the artifacts of ongoing occurrences.

Selected Exposure: Car storage at a car production site, Graz
© Christian Wagner