Nearest with UDK Berlin
The average time by train from Bielefeld to Berlin takes 2 hours 29 minutes for the 336 km connection. The Zoom meeting between Berlin and Bielefeld took place under the code 6346336843.
The phrase ›getting closer‹ can be interpreted in two ways, in relation to a physical intimacy and
a mental exchange. Students from Berlin and Bielfeld took up this idea. The distance, the previous lack of knowledge about and of each other became the basis for a visual process of getting to know each other.
An inner-German dialogue conducted in over 20 photographic works that negotiate the factor of closeness in the core concepts of touch and the unknown.
The present magazine stands for the designed, final output of this process, just as it formed the framework for the process that lay behind us. The format of a magazine shapes demands, it challenges decisions and it offers the chance to share knowledge and perception.
Unknown places, new experiences, touches as well as interpretations of music, approaches,
a recognition on the street as well as the impressions of a night, a loving family dynamic bring Bielefeld ›Closer and Closer‹.
This issue is based on the collaboration of the students of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in the seminar ›Editorial photography‹ under the leadership of Verena Brüning and the Berlin University of the Arts in the seminar ›Visual editors‹.
This series of photographs depicts the story of an approchement. Within a playful and compelling narrative, it show the mystery of the mutual connection that lies somewhere between the toss of the black tiles. Thes are soaring, floating and falling in the air and reflect the dynamics of a growing bond, as well as the exploration of the latent and puzzling feelings in oneself and the other.
