Photography

Photographyís translated meaning is to take the spectatorís eye to places and give him the possibility to take part in events which he did not participate in or where he should not have taken part in, however whose outcomes he will be effected by or whose participants he might be interested in. Photos can bring war in to the living room as safe as it can transmit it to outer space. The world politics, the most popular sport, the most exclusive society events or simply the most beautiful sunsets. This belongs to the being of photography. This has created the demand, which the public has always been requesting: A voyeur of time and its spectacles.Ý Some artists however resist the paternalism of the event.

Also the Düsseldorfer Ansgar van Treeck gives us the opportunity to ?see? what happens before, after and during the occasion at the location, as well when the journal pauses or somebody feels unobserved and takes a break from his responsibilities. Things like these give a picture its authentic character and make them incomparable. While others can easily be replaced, because they only show what should be shown, and arenít able to transmit the atmosphere of a certain situation, Ansgar M. van Treeck discovers just this atmosphere. In a certain way this method makes van Treecks shots so private. It makes them the private moments of the observer. Ansgar M. van Treeck gives his pictures an individual and self distinguished view, which is not influenced by the event or its protagonists but from the person which looks at the pictures. Of course fate plays a role as well as a sophisticated eye. The moment is important. Ansgar M. van Treeck does not stop for great symbols or political stars to achieve this. The photo of a soldier of the former regiment of the NVA of 1990 becomes writing on a wall for a misadjusted society concept, an empty president-limousine turns out to be a normal way of transportation, and the lost gaze of another president may remind one of a prisoner in a golden cage? Ansgar M. van Treeckís pictures are enough to portray a complete situation, they noticeably pass on the atmosphere, and sometimes they seam not to be fitting enough, to be part of a biography. At the same time they manage to keep everything down to earth.