Christian Kage & Martin Swarovski - Crisis? What Crisis? black and white

Christian Kage & Martin Swarovski - Crisis? What Crisis? black and whitePresent Books 2022 20x25cm, 112 Pages, German, English & Serbian Belgrade is a city with crisis carved in its sooty facades. Socio economically shaken, littered with bombs, and administered by corrupt politicians, it lingers impatiently pawing the ground in the anteroom of the European Union. It is a city where simultaneity and volatility swell up to a thunderous polyphony.

They barely have access to pure water and they are unable to support themselves

The places before Niang’s lens are at once forensically studied and transformed into fabular non-places

and the sociopolitical backgrounds that define them

1978) takes a cautious and precise look at life in the country

A singular

As they slip between roles

Creating surrealistic or fictional images with the photographs I take daily helps liberate me from the complications of my situation

art has an imperative to come closer to audiences

less well-known but equally comprehensive historical critiques such as “Photography between Labour and Capital” (1983)

his wife and his four sons in carefully prepared

their bodies

Seemingly identical nature shots that repeatedly interrupt the narrative flow reinforce this timelessness