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Photography.

Public Photography brings people, spaces and everyday situations together with experimental image constructions. Three personal photographs complement this collection: they show Michael Plötz himself, in two images together with his son Daniel Plötz.

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25 works

Colour photo-based composition showing people around an outdoor table, with a rectangular black-and-white image covering the central person's face and upper body.

A picture within the gathering

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A close exchange

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Michael Plötz seated with an open book or magazine, surrounded by houseplants, patterned fabric and audio equipment.

An afternoon indoors

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Michael Plötz seated on a rocky shore looking towards the camera, with his son Daniel Plötz facing away in the foreground and water behind.

At the water's edge

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Vertical black-and-white photograph of a crouching figure facing a doorway, with a standing figure inside and reflections in the glass beside the entrance.

Across the doorway

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Black-and-white street photograph of people seated outside a bar beneath a large SPORTING BAR sign on a weathered building facade.

The corner table

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Vertical black-and-white photograph of a lone dark-clothed figure walking across a cobbled open space beside pale buildings.

Across the cobbles

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Black-and-white photograph of a person in a doorway beneath two diagonally rising stairways, with a small sign reading MÄNNER above the door.

Beneath the stairs

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Black-and-white photograph of several people beside an outdoor table covered in objects; one person leans towards the tabletop while others stand nearby.

Among the stalls

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Black-and-white photograph of two figures, one adult-sized and one smaller, moving near water with tall grasses in the foreground.

Through the grasses

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Vertical black-and-white photograph of a person wearing a light sleeveless top seated against the front of a car, with other parked vehicles behind.

Among parked cars

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Black-and-white montage on a pale sheet combining a large face wearing glasses and a dark cap, a street scene, a mechanical object, a hand and smaller printed strips.

The portrait assembled

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Monochrome experimental image with a dense cluster of overlapping pale circles, a larger pale disc above left and scattered small light marks against a dark background.

Circles in a dark field

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Black-and-white photograph printed within an oval-shaped opening against a dark surround, showing several figures at different heights indoors.

Inside the oval

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Vertical black-and-white photograph of a partly broken building facade with a doorway, a window containing pale objects and rubble across the lower foreground.

An exposed facade

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Black-and-white photograph of a silhouetted person near a bright doorway or window, with patterned glass to the right and an open umbrella visible below.

Between shadow and daylight

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Black-and-white photograph of a weathered wall covered with German notices, torn posters, fragments of lettering and patches of worn plaster.

The wall as a page

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Black-and-white photograph of two people seated on the ground beside a reclining dog, with bicycles leaning against a rough wall behind them.

A pause beside the bicycles

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Vertical black-and-white photograph of a corner restaurant building with shuttered upper windows, facade lettering, a person on the pavement and road markings in the foreground.

The street corner

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Vertical black-and-white photograph of a standing person with hands resting on the head of a seated person, with a crowd visible in the background.

Hands in a crowded room

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Brass and shadow

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Vertical black-and-white photograph of a rounded parked car in front of a steep uphill street lined with multistorey buildings and overhead wires.

The rising street

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Horizontal black-and-white photograph looking through a dark covered passage with repeated beams and supports towards a bright opening and a small distant silhouetted figure.

Towards the light

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Vertical black-and-white photograph looking upwards through a fruiting plant, with round fruit, branching stems and curling leaves silhouetted against a pale sky.

Fruit against the sky

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Vertical black-and-white photograph of a triangular gable wall with two upper windows, dark weathered plaster, vegetation near the base and a pale vertical streak down the facade.

Two windows in a worn wall

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