Juliane Eirich was born in Munich, Germany in 1979. After two internships in Miami and Munich, she studied at the State Academy of Photographic Design in Munich (Fachakademie für Fotodesign München). After graduating in 2003, she moved to New York and Honolulu to work and pursue her own projects. In 2006, Juliane received a sholarship to attend Fotofest in Houston. She spent eighteen months of 2007-8 in Seoul, South Korea on a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and studied visual communication at Hongik University. Her first book, Itoshima, was published with Peperoni Books, Berlin. She now lives and works in Berlin and is represented by Gallery f5.6 in Munich.
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Itoshima
I knew Japan already from previous visits when I returned in the summer of 2011 in order to work there. But this time, things were much different. A few months earlier, the earthquake had destroyed the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Even though Itoshima is around 900 km away, my enthusiasm and curiosity for the foreign country mingled with a subliminal feeling of fear and threat. With mixed emotions, I took residence in a beautiful old country house in the subtropical south of Japan. A feeling of nescience through no fault of my own. An uneasiness that I can transfer to other situations in my life in our current time. Maybe it is myself but most likely it is the world. But no matter what, I have an unconditional interest in the things and an urge to sharpen my senses in dialogue with them.
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I think many of my photographs transfer this ambivalence. It depends on your mood or your story whether you find them comforting or eerie. The process of taking the picture is also important for me. I am a very slow photographer. I want my images to be the opposite of a snapshot. I work with a 4x5 inch large format camera on film. In Itoshima, my mode of transportation was cycling, that was the speed I had. I am very strict in regards to my photography. I choose my images very carefully. I do not take many photos and, with the ones I take, I really knew what I want to do. Sometimes, the images come to me. I pass by and they urge me to take their photo. Like you pass people and they ask you to take their picture.
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Juliane's work has also been shown in numerous exhibits and photofestivals in Germany, France, Tunisia, Japan, Canada, Syria, Italy and the US. Between 2007 and 2013, she received eleven awards and was nominated for the Paul Huf Award and the Photoprize of the Klein Collection. She spent one week at the artist in residence programm of ELTEATRO in Tunis, Tunisia in December 2010 and one month at the artist in residence program at Studio Kura in Itoshima, Japan. From July to August 2014, she will be an artists in residence at the Nordic Artists Center in Dale, Norway.
To view more of Juliane's work please visit her website.
Itoshima
I knew Japan already from previous visits when I returned in the summer of 2011 in order to work there. But this time, things were much different. A few months earlier, the earthquake had destroyed the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Even though Itoshima is around 900 km away, my enthusiasm and curiosity for the foreign country mingled with a subliminal feeling of fear and threat. With mixed emotions, I took residence in a beautiful old country house in the subtropical south of Japan. A feeling of nescience through no fault of my own. An uneasiness that I can transfer to other situations in my life in our current time. Maybe it is myself but most likely it is the world. But no matter what, I have an unconditional interest in the things and an urge to sharpen my senses in dialogue with them.
I think many of my photographs transfer this ambivalence. It depends on your mood or your story whether you find them comforting or eerie. The process of taking the picture is also important for me. I am a very slow photographer. I want my images to be the opposite of a snapshot. I work with a 4x5 inch large format camera on film. In Itoshima, my mode of transportation was cycling, that was the speed I had. I am very strict in regards to my photography. I choose my images very carefully. I do not take many photos and, with the ones I take, I really knew what I want to do. Sometimes, the images come to me. I pass by and they urge me to take their photo. Like you pass people and they ask you to take their picture.
Juliane's work has also been shown in numerous exhibits and photofestivals in Germany, France, Tunisia, Japan, Canada, Syria, Italy and the US. Between 2007 and 2013, she received eleven awards and was nominated for the Paul Huf Award and the Photoprize of the Klein Collection. She spent one week at the artist in residence programm of ELTEATRO in Tunis, Tunisia in December 2010 and one month at the artist in residence program at Studio Kura in Itoshima, Japan. From July to August 2014, she will be an artists in residence at the Nordic Artists Center in Dale, Norway.
To view more of Juliane's work please visit her website.
