I am a photographer living in Buenos Aires. Before moving to Argentina I lived in Berlin, Tokyo and New York. The culture and history of the places where I live inspire my projects.
k.c.koppers at live dot nl
The Berlin War Projects (Sphairagrams, Berlin Scrolls and Streetscapes) are each about Berlin and its traces of war.
Sphairagrams (realised in the period 2017-2019) takes walls with bulletholes on Museum Island as its main focus. The project presents itself in the form of a (mock)catalogue. There are 33 sphairagrams in total.
I have made a tabloid newspaper version of the catalogue which includes an essay by philosopher Silvia Mazzini.
Berlin Scrolls are Asian scrolls with blind walls as background patterns, all photographed in Berlin, based on “kigo” (Japanese season words used in haiku and scrolls) in the foreground.
There are 20 scrolls, each is 1 m (3,28 ft) long and about 30 cm (12 in) wide.
Streetscapes focuses on buildings that disappeared in Berlin during the war. Each streetscape, there are 7, consists of a collage of several photographs each of an old building next to a new one. A new building signifies one that has disappeared. The muted, traditional prewar houses are flanked by more colorful new buildings. A previously homogeneous looking cityscape has changed into something more diverse and colorful, analogous to German society as a whole.
The Berlin Scrolls presented above are titled: Autumn (Bugs/Grave Visit), Spring (Sparrow), Summer (Upside Down Jellyfish) and Summer (Jellyfish).
Hunter-Gatherer (Shibuya Crossing, Alexanderplatz, Columbus Circle), started out with photographs I took in Tokyo of random people at the famous crossing. I later expanded the series with photographs taken in new hometowns Berlin and New York. Written in Japanese along the side are the date and place.
There are 15 collages and photographs of 70 by 50cm.
Quarantination is still a work in progress.
The Shanghai photo series focuses on a way of life that is disappearing from the city as old houses get torn down to make way for new high-rise buildings.
20 Seasons (Memories of Tokyo) are double exposed pinhole photographs. They are photographic reflections on the years that I lived there. They depict Shibuya Crossing at noon with sakura and Akasaka with Hamarikyu's 300-year-old pine. This series received an honorable mention at the International Photography Awards in 2017.
A selection of the Agnus series also received an honorable mention at the International Photography Awards in 2017. The series is about lambs from an island in the North Sea.
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