Biographie
Born in Überlingen, Germany. In 1987, Peter Franck starts studying painting and graphic design at the Fine Arts school of Nuremberg. In 1993, he finishes his studies in Stuttgart's University (Masterclass R. Schoofs). His first contact with photography happened thanks to his brother, whom is also a photographer. With his photographic pictures influenced by painting, he participated in numerous art events, like the Fotofestival of Naarden, the Photosummer of Stuttgart, and the Art Fair of Cologne. In parallel to his photographic projects, he has kept working on his paintings, which completely differ from his photographic works.
Présentation
As part of a research project on the legendary camera "Kodak Box no. 1 " , the photographer has collected images that document scenes of everyday family life. He reworks the clichés with the aim of denouncing and breaking the point of vue of the viewer as voyeur. He wants to thwart this intrusion into private life that has now become ordinary. The found photographs provide then the foundation for new stories, they play with the perspective and atmosphere of times past . They are on the boundary between photography and painting