THIRD PLACE WINNER - People: Children (AMATEUR)
PURE FLUX

Photo © Oliver Raschka
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No staging, no posing. Just in a constant state of pure flux. Snapshots from real life, at home, while playing, after school, at sports, while shopping... As a silent observer, I feel the daily here and now of my two children, today nine and six years old. Not as a father, but as a photographer. For children, life is a discovery every day. But how is it to be a child? How was it to be a child? When you have no worries about yesterday or tomorrow?
When only the moment counts? From a child’s perspective it is also a rollercoaster of emotions, an eternal struggle between the child’s simultaneous dependence and need for autonomy: self-discovery, fear, happiness, pain, hope and selfdoubt. The emotional state of a child often suddenly changes from one second to another. But it is everyday life that determines the lives of my children. I try to capture these unique moments in a honest way, as they come up in a natural manner. I don’t ask my sons to pose for me. As I keep a camera on Hand as often I can, I am able to record their life in a fluid way. For me, this long-term project is about the core of photography: to capture the transitory in the contemporary, to find the extraordinary in the ordinary and thus to allow new perspectives on the known and ultimately to give subjective insights into family life that are universal at the same time.
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No staging, no posing. Just in a constant state of pure flux. Snapshots from real life, at home, while playing, after school, at sports, while shopping... As a silent observer, I feel the daily here and now of my two children, today nine and six years old. Not as a father, but as a photographer. For children, life is a discovery every day. But how is it to be a child? How was it to be a child? When you have no worries about yesterday or tomorrow?
When only the moment counts? From a child’s perspective it is also a rollercoaster of emotions, an eternal struggle between the child’s simultaneous dependence and need for autonomy: self-discovery, fear, happiness, pain, hope and selfdoubt. The emotional state of a child often suddenly changes from one second to another. But it is everyday life that determines the lives of my children. I try to capture these unique moments in a honest way, as they come up in a natural manner. I don’t ask my sons to pose for me. As I keep a camera on Hand as often I can, I am able to record their life in a fluid way. For me, this long-term project is about the core of photography: to capture the transitory in the contemporary, to find the extraordinary in the ordinary and thus to allow new perspectives on the known and ultimately to give subjective insights into family life that are universal at the same time.
About author:
Oliver Raschka is an emerging artist from Stuttgart, Germany. He studied economics and psychology. As a photographic autodidact he trained himself through numerous workshops with renowned photographers. He loves black-and-white photography, coffee is the drug of his choice, and loud rock music is what he likes. His photographs have been widely published in group and individual exhibitions as well as in international and national Journals (e. g. Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, Opus Fotopreis 2017, Washington School of Photography, Lensculture Top 100 Street Photography 2016, London Independent Photography, Der Greif, Black + White Photography Magazine, Schwarzweiss Magazine, Deutscher Werkbund)BACK TO GALLERY