Artist
Jens Hartmann
Jens Hartmann is a photographer based in Frankfurt, Germany. He works in landscape — remote terrain, recorded as it is.
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. The Iceland series of 2022 was recorded in a 3:2 frame; new work is made on a Fuji GFX 100 II — a medium-format camera that records the full field at high resolution, in a 4:3 frame. In both, the frame is kept as it was recorded, 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.
Work so far
His work is built in series and developed toward the print. The first, Iceland, was recorded over three months in 2022 across the island's interior — the outwash plains and the highland routes away from the marked roads.
His personal site is jens-hartmann.net.
Enquiries
For editions, collector enquiries, or curatorial interest, write to hello@hartmann.art.