Marcus Schaefer | Mapping Subconsciousness

2024
Hardcover
Marcus Schaefer | Mapping Subconsciousness
Publisher: Patrick Remy Studio
Dimensions: 19 x 25.5 cm
€ 49.00

This book shows a selection of photographs taken between 2019 and 2024. It serves as a collection of what I consider to be some of my most significant photographs captured during that period. I think of photography as a perfect tool to create my very own interpretation of reality - for me personally, a reality that is about beauty, art, and aesthetics, not necessarily technical perfection. I am not interested in capturing the exact likeness of someone or something and long to arrest all beauty and the non-obvious or at least make the obvious not look obvious. By doing so, I seek that ʼin‑betweenʼ experience with surreal momentum that escapes the static reproduction of reality. I am intrigued by the interplay between fiction and reality - the subconscious and the conscious - and want to take the audience on a journey through my mind and visual world, creating imagery that possesses a sense of narrative ambiguity, allowing viewers to project their own subconscious thoughts and engage with the deeper, often hidden aspects of their own mind.

 

There is a spectral nature in photography - it can have a dark, absorbing element to it - something between life and the afterlife. It is like a time capsule that grants you the magical tool to go back and forth in time and make the now look like a timeless place in the void.