After a few detours, I now live in Frankfurt am Main, where I was born. After studying visual communication, I worked as a filmmaker – you can find more information about my films here. In addition to working on my films, I have been focusing more and more on photography and now alternate evenly between moving and still images.
There are similarities and differences between film and photography. I value the moment of observation and the process of exploration in both. The photographic image, as a single image, I perceive as contemplative. Putting one image in dialog with another creates a narrative in the viewer’s mind. A series can deepen a theme. Photography is a language with its own specificity.
My pleasure in photography is the process of extracting space and time and transforming them into an image. I’m drawn to the precious in the mundane.
For me, photography is the art of discovering things and transforming them into a visual expression. With an open mind and a bit of luck, I find my images everywhere. I call them improvised treasures.
My photographic approach is intuitive, combining controlled chance and conscious selection. This process sometimes evolves into further conceptual work and deepening of the subject.
Solo exhibitions
2024 – „Memory Affairs“ in context with STUDIO COLOGNE – The PhotoBookMuseum 10th Anniversary
2024 – „Memory Affairs“ at Rotterdam Photo ’24
2023 – „Blue Moon and Dancing Lines“, Kunstfoyer Gallustheater Frankfurt
2021 – „Image2Movie“, Exhibition space EULENGASSE, Frankfurt
2018 – „transform“, projektHaus Leistikow, Fotografie & Tanzfilme
Participation in group exhibitions (selection)
2025 – „How… So…“, Exhibition space EULENGASSE Frankfurt, together with Sabine Stange
2024 – „Passionately“, exhibition in celebration of 40 Years Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Member Show
2024 – „Friends“, Kunstbalkon Kassel
2024 – „Elective Affinities“, together with Rainer Geburzyk and Contessa Roberts, Exhibition space EULENGASSE, Frankfurt
2023 – „Veiled Illusions“, together with Sabine Stange, Kunstbalkon Kassel,
Collaboration Produzentengalerie kunstbalkon Kassel and Kunstverein EULENGASSE, Frankfurt
2023 – „reconsider“, EULENGASSE guest in Galeria e Arteve Gjilan, Kosovo
2022 – „Light Moves“, Kunsttage 30 Dreieich, Städtische Galerie Dreieich
2022 – „Conserved Time“, Exhibition space EULENGASSE, Frankfurt,
2022 – „Green“, Scheune 7, Flörsbachtal-Kempfenbrunn, Video „grünes Begehren“
2022 – „Change of Course“, Exhibition space EULENGASSE, Frankfurt
2019 – „Set in Motion“, Kunstfabrik Darmstadt-Wixhausen
Art scholarships
2020 – Project grant from the Hessian Cultural Foundation as part of the „Hessen kulturell neu eröffnen“ funding program
1997 – Moldova scholarship from the Hess. Ministry of Science and Art, 3-month stay in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic, fall 1997 – Internet project and photographic work
Awards
2022 Shortlisted at the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award with the project „Memory Affairs“
2014 – 1st prize and cinema prize at the Choreografic Captures competition for „A Horse’s Dream“
2004 Jury-Preis Dance on Camera Festival New York for the film „Ladies and Gentlemen over 65“
2003 German Film Critics‘ Award for the best documentary film for „Ladies and Gentlemen over 65“
2000 – Nomination for the International Media Art Prize ZKM 50 Best for the film „Somewhere we have seen each other before“
Professional Activities and Research Experience
1985 until – now I work as a freelance lens-based artist.
1992 – 96 research assistent at Academy of Media Arts Cologne
1983 – 2017 Management of my own production company, production of numerous documentaries as well as feature and experimental films. The films were often supported by funding and shown at festivals, in cinema and on television. I have worked in the areas of production, directing and editing and have occasionally worked as a camera operator.
Education
1985 diploma in visual communication with film and photo at the University of Art and Design Offenbach (Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach)
You can find me on Instagram
If there is interest in my works please feel free to contact me.
lmangelsdorff(at)t-online.de