Jens Hartmann

Statement

The work treats landscape as a record, not a view. Rather than describe a place or arrange its best light, the photographs hold what the ground actually is: surface, weather, exposed material, scale. What the scenic image leaves out is the subject.

Method

Hartmann works in series, over long periods in a single terrain. Photographs are now made on a Fuji GFX 100 II — a medium-format camera that records the full field at high resolution, in a 4:3 frame, without crop or correction toward a more flattering image. Works are printed as archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle fine art paper, at the size the work is meant to be seen, signed and numbered.

Biography

Jens Hartmann is a photographer based in Frankfurt, Germany. His work is landscape — built in series, made over long periods in remote terrain, and developed toward the print.

His personal site is jens-hartmann.net.

Enquiries

For editions, collector enquiries, or curatorial interest, write to hello@hartmann.art.