Dusk
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Beschreibung
Following Axel Hoedt’s Once A Year (2014), Dusk continues the photographer’s journey through southwestern Germany, and extends it into Austria and Switzerland. Hoedt undermines traditional (and often clichéd) representations of carnival: we see no paraders somersaulting before the crowds, no embarrassing scenes of drunken debauchery. Instead, Hoedt photographs the revelers in earnest poses, static against a bright background, in a forest or next to rural buildings, juxtaposing classic studio photography, Polaroid snapshots and still-life imagery. Often installing the quaint colorful masks within an unforgiving winter environment, Hoedt reminds us of what carnival once used to be: a final celebration before the dawning of hard times.
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Axel Hoedt
Axel Hoedt was born in Freiburg in 1966 and studied photo design at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld. Since 1999 he has lived and worked in London. Hoedt has received numerous awards such as a gold medal at the Lead Awards in 2010 and the Otto-Steinert-Preis from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie in 2011.