Biographie
Henry Schulz was born in Hamburg in 1996, and moved to Berlin in 2016
to work as a freelance photographer. From 2018 to 2022 he studied photography at the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin. People things is his first photo book, which features a selection of his serial landscape photographs taken primarily in Germany between 2020 and 2023.
Présentation
I set o with my camera because my head was full of memories and stories that since childhood formed my world view and view of germany. Family stories, encounters, literature. The wish arose to nd places that correspond to these memories, places where they are at home.
In precisely conceived composi ons, usually taken in areas between countryside and city, I also describe a cycle. Of disappearance and reappearance, of memory and oblivion. In these periods of me, themes such as home and childhood can be reinterpreted and social change can be experienced.
I experienced it as a journey of explora on, into our country, but also into myself. Many of my pictures contain abandoned places that are o en in a ruinous state. But what I nd here is not decay and the end of a story, but a place that is at an exciting point in a cycle. A coexistence of man and nature.
The places in the photographs contain ciphers of memory, perhaps of a carefree me, a youthful freedom.
Memories have passed through so many hands and have manifested themselves. A cycle of genera ons and their changes and redesigns. A freedom of a new beginning. I see this as a posi ve approach in my photographs. Maybe one can describe Germany also this way.