Refugees in a State Apartment, Jens Ullrich,
Photo exhibit, on a fence outside the Italian Consulate, Dundas West at Beverley.
Part of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
Ullrich has taken found black and white photographs of the interior of a large home near Bremen Germany. The photos were taken in the late 1920’s. Each photograph is of a different room in the villa and to each picture Ullrich has added one person. If you knew nothing about the series, you wouldn’t know that the subjects were refugees.
In each photomontage, singular individuals are depicted—usually with their faces hidden from the camera—within empty yet elaborately fashioned spaces that emphasize their solitude and unstable status. “
One of the concepts behind this series of images was the desire to
respectfully capture the disparate emotions of these individuals and their precarious situations.”
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