The vision of the photographer

Lothar Schillak is a natural scientist and photographer ..... for more than 40 years he has captured the world in images ..... initially with a scientific eye but increasingly astistically as he delved deeper into the medium .....

" There is a big wide difference between these two aspects" he says, "scientific photography is analytical while artistic photography aims to bring out the aesthetics of the visible behind the surface of the appearance ..... to recogniize this we lack the necessary vision and perhaps also the necessary attentionn to do so." .....

Lothar Schillak sees himself as a photographic artist in the tradition of photographers like Karl Blossfeldt, Volkhart Hofer, Andreas Hoffmasnn and Manfred Kriegelstein .....

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the photographs by Lothar Schillak are authentic ..... the subjects are depicted in his photographs as they were seen ..... none of his photographs are artistically edited on the scrren ..... they show the smallest details ...... captutre the aesthetics of things ..... lead the viewer from the representational through the semi-abstract to complete abstraction ..... his photographs require close attention probing the essence of things and only reveal what they are about at a second glance .....

as with modern art our eye needs time to interpret the play of colors and forms ..... these are poetic moments that, when viewing his pictures, clearly show the beauty that surrounds us even in the seemingly mundane .... his pictures do not disenchant the world ..... on the contrary: they show nature in all its fascinating and archaic incomprehensibility  ..... and thus a closer description of his photographs is unnecessary .....

..... none of his photographs have a title ..... 

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