Honorable Mention
Norisring
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Norisring, after the Second World War, a motorbike race was held for the first time in 1947 on a track around the Zeppelin grandstand. The stone grandstand is part of the Zeppelin field, which was created from the Zeppelin meadow and is part of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds. Car races have also been held here from 1948 to the present day, with the annual DTM championship race being particularly legendary. Outside of racing times, the track can also be used by cyclists. The photo shows the starting positions for the racing cars (yellow) and the finish line (black and white). AUTHOR
"It is an illusion that photos are taken with a camera... they are taken with the eye, the heart and the head." Henri Cartier-BressonFrank Schasse is an architect and has been involved with photography since his student days. Both disciplines stem from the same quest: the attempt to give form to space, light and perception in a way that points beyond the purely visible.
For him, photography is far more than the capture of a moment. It is an act of seeing – and, at the same time, of realisation. It is only through conscious observation that the world begins to transform. What is seen detaches itself from its mere reality and becomes a new image in which memory, mood, emotion and imagination merge. This gives rise to a reality of its own, which allows us to glimpse not so much the object itself as its very essence.
Photography thus becomes a philosophical dialogue between reality and imagination, between the visible and the hidden. Making the invisible visible, allowing the familiar to be experienced anew, and inviting the viewer to transcend the limits of their own perception – for Frank Schasse, this is where the particular appeal of his photographic work lies.
