Artist Statement TriggerChrome

C u r e  w i t h  P o i s o n

'I am self-taught and specialize in capturing peoples’ wide and often contradictory range of emotions in a clear, color-conscious, cinematic-narrative style.  I extract and create moments of authenticity during my sessions, enabling the subject to become engulfed in the healing aspect of the concept of stylized beauty (Selfies/Photoshop) and also contrarily, 'poison' (photography). 

 Relying heavily on improvisational elements that are rooted in impulses evolving over the course of the shoot, as much as an intuitive preconceived concept is my preferred approach to each session.

 With that, experimental visual freedom I try to achieve a diversity within my compositions and lighting that focusses the viewers attention to the meticulously surrendered expressions of my subjects.

I don't necessarily want to capture a 'moment of truth', quite the opposite actually: I allow human emotions to peruse a heightened reality and capture that - surprisingly enough there is more of the real person to be found in that than in their perceived idea of themselves: the one they are usually using to ‘mask’ themselves in day-to-day life.

For me, art has become an adventure about finding and documenting similarities in the human soul - overwhelmed by expectations, traditions and the complex worlds that surround each and every one of us.'

Louis C. Oberlander
Los Angeles/Hamburg , 2018