Structure of Presence
A photographic practice investigating how human presence becomes readable within urban systems, infrastructures, and moments of absence.
My work approaches urban space as a system of conditions rather than events.
Through long-term photographic series, I examine how human presence ist structured, neutralised, or rendered invisible by infrastructures, spatial routines, and temporal regimes.
Photography operates here not as representation, but as diagnostic tool for reading what shapes behaviour before it becomes legible.
Photography does not stand outside the systems it observes.
It orders visibility, selects relevance, and participates in the structures it seeks to read.
I do not believe in innocent photography —
nor in critique without involvement.
My work treats photography not as representation,
but as a site of friction:
a place where visibility itself becomes questionable.
- Excerpt from the essay Against Innocence
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address: Francisco Prieto Montesdeca, Am Bahndamm 7, 23919 Berkenthin, Germany