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Michael Wesely in conversation with Barbara Hofmann-Johnson, Director of the Museum of Photography, Braunschweig, moderated by Ludwig Seyfarth

Michael Wesely is known for his long exposure photographs. Changes in urban space - especially in Berlin, where he has lived for a long time - are one of his central motifs. His specially developed cameras remain in one place for up to three years. The construction of new buildings on Potsdamer Platz, for example, is captured as if in fast motion. In his new complex of works, Doubleday (2023), he works with a normal short exposure time, but two images are superimposed on each other. The artist captures places in Berlin from exactly the same perspective as they appear in old black and white photographs. In conversation with Barbara Hofmann-Johnson, Michael Wesely explains his approach and how the artistic and the documentary are combined in his work.