Jörg Sasse

Jörg Sasse


BIOGRAPHY
Jörg Sasse has embraced the manipulative power of digital technology in his re imagining of photography, altering images until their original sources are barely identifiable. Sasse scans found photographs—usually land- and cityscapes—and digitally changes them in ways that imbue narrative, changing and blurring light or physically altering the composition, before turning the images into a negative that he then uses to make his prints. Though a student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sasse’s practise is a fundamental questioning of the documentary power of photography. “Did classical photography ever reproduce what was in front of the camera?” he asks. “Seeing and thinking, thinking and seeing—who can keep the two apart?”


I am fascinated by his questioning of photographs and using our own perceptions of a questionable reality. Sasse's use of found images, to then manipulate these images and change them into new photographs, and then for these photographs to look authentic and credible.

Jorg Sasse 8246, 2000

Jorg Sasse 1063, 2001

Jorg Sasse 1698, 2011.

I find two things interesting about Jorg Sasse work. Firstly originally being a student of the Dusseldorf School, who's teachings and school exemplifies the wonder of an image as it is. To photograph, as with Neue Sachlichkeit as distant relations and the Bechers as tutors, Sasse's choice to make use of found images and manipulate these images, the end result being an image you could look upon and not realise was manipulated. It has the same style and feel to other students from The Dusseldorf school.

I also find interesting the images below, Jorg Sasse 1073 from 2007 is an almost exact resemblance to Albert Renger-Patsch, Buchenwald in November 1936, I will not say a copy of the original, but being from a similar background within photography, and Renger-Patsch being one of the most famous photographers in German history, it makes me question and examine these two images.

I would love to find out, however there is no information to be found. I can only surmise.

Jorg Sasse 1073, 2007.

Albert Renger-Patsch. Buchenwald in November  1936