What is a photograph, and what stories are told by the elements within a photographic image? These are the questions explored by Susanne Kriemann. Her field research leads her to former uranium mining areas in the Ore Mountains and the Massif Central in the south of France, or to a steel mill in Germany’s Siegerland region.
As part of the exhibition Susanne Kriemann: Knochen, Pech, Natternkopf (Being a Photograph), a collaboration with Camera Austria, the artist talks to publisher Jan Wenzel about her books and presents two new publications.
The reader Susanne Kriemann: Being a Photograph has been published on the occaion of the exhibition in the Edition Camera Austria. It has been designed by James Langdon and brings together texts by Siobhan Angus, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Zippora Elders, Daisy Hildyard, Bhanu Kapil, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou and Lisa Rosendahl.
Her latest artist’s book on her Monte Schlacko, dear Slagorg series is released by Spector Books in September 2025. It is designed by Tobias Wenig and features texts by Eva Schmidt, Michael Schessl, Susanne Kriemann and Thomas Thiel.