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The photo project Am Weg is the final part of Hans-Christian Schink's trilogy of long-term photographic investigations into the surroundings of his home in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern The photo project Am Weg is the final part of Hans-Christian Schink's trilogy of long-term photographic investigations into the surroundings of his home in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (after Hinterland, 2019 and Unter Wasser, 2022). A 3 km long dirt road leads from the photographer's house through an agricultural landscape typical of this region. Hans-Christian Schink walked this path with stoic regularity, on foot and with his camera. Over a period of four years, he created an artistic and documentary inventory of the various aspects of what he saw. The results are atmospherically dense landscape images in black and white, intoxicatingly colorful portraits of flowers and graphically fascinating photographs of grasses and leaves. These are complemented by bird drawings by his brother Martin Schink. Comprehensive lists by the artist document the extensive wealth of flora and fauna observed along the way. The charme of this project lies in the harmonious interplay of all the elements of this collection. It unfolds its effect from the harmony of all the elements of this collection of material, thus making viewers and readers aware of the multi-layered interweaving of nature and culture, even in our immediate surroundings.

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Hans-Christian Schink studied photography at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art under Joachim Jansong from 1986 to 1991 and completed a master's degree course from 1991 to 1993. In the following years he won several work grants, including from the Kulturfonds Foundation in 1997 and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in 2008. In 2002 he was ""artist in residence"" at the Kunstlerhaus Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, in 2012 he was a scholarship holder at Villa Kamogawa Kyoto and in 2014 he was a scholarship holder at the German Academy Villa Massimo Rome. He has received renowned awards, including the German Photo Book Prize in 2004 for his book ""Traffic Projects"" and the highly endowed REAL Photography Award in 2008 for his series ""1 h"".

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