TITLE: White Rooms

My series “White Rooms” tries to visualize certain patterns of behavior, transformations and evolu- tionary processes in our societies.

Since I was living abroad for several years, I realized there are ways of behaviour that seem universal. Also the same transformation processes and changes are affecting countries all across the globe. Where ever I was, I spent a lot of time observing the people and their interaction with others and their environment.

I started working on the series in 2007. Until now the series consists of 14 images and is basically ongoing, since our societies are continuously affected by transformations and progress.

While the overall topics are anonymity, repetition and exchangeability, all the pictures focus on a different issue. Other central topics of the series are identity, the individual and interpersonal relationships while the strict patterns comment on freedom, control, adjustment, self-determination and how the modern human being already conforms to a computer driven world.

I continuously took pictures of a person walking on a huge area. In the digital post-processing I cut out the person from it ́s original background and transferred it onto a white background. By separating it from reality into an abstract white background it emphasizes the pattern and makes it independent from any existing place. The sum of the frames creates again a room through the positioning.

So every picture is composed of dozens of single images. By compressing a sequence of movement into one single image, the picture also question the idea of a “Decisive Moment“ and the synchrony of modern society. The length of the working process of the pictures differs between hours and month.

AUTHOR: Thiemo Kloss (Germany)