The source material shows the construction site of the new headquarters of the SPIEGEL Group and the neighbouring Ericus Contor on Ericusspitze in Hamburg.
For BaustellenBaustelle, I combined several photographs and perspectives to create a single pictorial space. The architecture is under construction—and at the same time, its photographic representation is being reconstructed. Lines, façades and architectural volumes continue across different viewpoints. Shifts, repetitions and spatial contradictions remain visible without entirely dissolving the impression of a coherent place.
The work therefore touches upon a fundamental question in journalism: How do individual observations, images, statements and pieces of information come together to form a picture of reality?
A journalistic text cannot represent reality in its entirety either. It selects, contextualises and establishes connections. Its credibility does not depend on being free from perspective or possible error, but on its selection, sources and conclusions remaining verifiable—and open to correction.
Plausibility alone is not evidence of truth. A convincingly assembled image can reveal connections—or conceal contradictions. On social media, this effect is accelerated by cropping, repetition and algorithmic weighting: what appears frequently and fits together formally is quickly accepted as reality.
BaustellenBaustelle therefore presents reality not as a completed building, but as an ongoing construction. It must be built, examined and looked at anew.
