About Me - Bernhard Quade Photography (2024)

About Me

To show our desires, to increase these sensations I often change the contrast and colour and take multiple shots of the same subject in different lighting conditions. I can combine these different shots to create often impossible lighting conditions.Without human form in my work the observer is drawn into more "space", to enter a new romantic world which creates a silence and tension in the spectator himself. There are no special titles to my work, just a simple description - so the thoughts of the observer are not limited to my words alone.I hope everyone that views my work can find his or her own place in this "new"world - somewhere he wants to be. Where he wants to stay.

I was born in West Germany in 1966, next to one of the largest open coal mine in the world.

Ever since I was a small boy I have been impressed how this immense project influences and changes not only the entire lives of so many people but also their surroundings, the landscape. In its lifetime the massive digging machines have consumed more than 25 villages and created some mountains and lakes.It was here with this industrial backdrop when I was 14 that I began experimenting with my first photographs - of the mined earth, the equipment which serviced the industry and portraits of the people that lived and worked there.Being exposed to this environment led to an interest in mechanical engineering and it was this field that I pursued to university, albeit with more of a creative bent, a wish to design! And so, I finished my diploma with a design of a 30m Placer yacht.Despite accomplishing my goal I couldn't shake off the photography bug and all through my studies I used all my spare time to travel Europe, taking photographs of its industry and landscape.After working as a boat designer I moved to Haarlem (Netherlands) and enrolled in a school for photography, where I received my 2nd diploma. For years I worked as a photographer in Amsterdam. Since 11 years I am working just as an art photographer, living in Germany and Italy.

Publications

1999Camel Trophy, Amsterdam (NL)

2000“De Agenda”, Morton Kirschner Photography Award 2001, Amsterdam (NL)

2000“News Tribune”, Amsterdam (NL)

2000“De Krant 2000 – SCC” (school of advertisem*nt), six portraits, Amsterdam (NL)

2001“P/F”, Photography Magazine (NL)

2001“Photo Annual 2001”, Graphis, New York (USA)

2001“AU”, Architecture and Urbanism Magazine (J)

2001“De Krant 2001 – SCC”, six portraits, Amsterdam (NL)

2002“Photo Annual 2002”, Graphis, New York (USA)

2002“De Krant 2002 – SCC”, six portraits, Amsterdam (NL)

2002NIVRA, ARA, Rotterdam (NL)

2003“De Krant 2003 – SCC”, six portraits, Amsterdam (NL)

2003HVR –Kliq, TBWA, Amsterdam (NL)

2004“De Krant 2004 – SCC”, six portraits, Amsterdam (NL)

2004Spring collection internet, Overzeas, Haarlem (NL)

2005“Wilhelm Mundt, Eine Werkauswahl”, B&M (D)

2005Autumn collection internet, Overzeas, Haarlem (NL)

2006Spring collection internet, Overzeas, Haarlem (NL)

2008Ruby Mag Magazine, Buenos Aires (Ar)

2009Teloy Mühle, Rheinische Post (D)

2009Three Days Christmas, la saif (F)

2011Forgotten: El baile de los olvidados, Underdogs (ES)

2011«Aephoria», e-leoforos.gr (GR)

2011Log 2011.8

2012Olvidado, SarabiaPhoto (ES)

2013Gelecek Etraf’a kadar etrafta bunlar var, Taraf (TR)

2013Pinelo Gallery’de karma sergi, Sosyette (TR)

2013IATE magazine, (BR)

2014Log 2014.3

2014“Winter Ausstellung”, Artinfo (D)

2015“Berge, Wälder und magische Orte” General-Anzeiger (D)

2015“Bernhard Quade – Natures et industries” Telerama (FR)

2015‘Natures es Industries’, Le Journal des Arts (FR)

2015Exposition: Natures et industries de B. Quade, actuphoto (FR)