The actor, DJ and photo artist Lars Eidinger
Image: Lars Eidinger
The actor and DJ Lars Eidinger is also a photographer. A conversation about his new volume “O Mensch”, the life of things of their own – and about the danger of becoming your own cliché.
You are an actor, but have always worked in other art forms. A new volume with photos you took has now been published. What fascinates you about photography?
People have told me that, for them, my pictures mostly show “weirdness”. I would vehemently disagree with that, actually the opposite is true: they mainly show everyday things. It’s not something you have to look for for a long time, it’s all things that are pretty obvious, but that I think we’ve forgotten how to see. These are the moments where I pause. What fascinates me about photography is that I initially follow a superficial stimulus or an intuition and the meaning of a motif only becomes clear to me afterwards. I react and only later do I understand why I reacted to something. Visual language can withstand many more contradictions than the spoken word.
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