"Acts of homage and acts of witness, these photographs induce the requisite wonder and gratitude to spur a much-needed sense of accountability." – Los Angeles Times 12 Hz – the lowest sound threshold of human hearing – suggests imperceptible forces, from plate tectonics to the ocean tides, from cycles of growth and decay in the forest, to the incomprehensibility of geological spans of time. The photographs in Ron Jude’s "12 Hz" allude to the ungraspable scale and veiled mechanic…

The exhibition includes two photographic series by the American artist Ron Jude: "Lago” from 2015 and "Nausea”, a project from 1992 that has been re-edited on the occasion of its 25th anniversary and is currently available as a new MACK Books publication. 25 years ago, the exhibition of "Nausea” at The Photographer's Gallery in London marked the starting point for Ron Jude’s international career as a photographer. The series also set the theme his arti…

In his photographic series "Lick Creek Line" Ron Jude follows a fur trapper into the wilderness of the American West. But just as the route of the trapper along a river takes him deeper and deeper into nature and further and further away from the security of human settlements, the photographic series itself takes the viewer into uncertain territory. Documentary photography that, just a moment, ago still had been conceived as actual representation of reality, dissolves into the poeti…

In seiner fotografischen Serie „Lick Creek Line“ folgt Ron Jude einem Pelzjäger in die Wildnis des amerikanischen Westens. Doch so, wie die Route des Fallenstellers entlang eines Flusses ihn immer tiefer in die Natur und immer weiter von der Sicherheit menschlicher Siedlungen entfernt, führt auch die fotografische Sequenz der Serie bald in unsicheres Gebiet. Eben noch als faktische Darstellung begriffene Dokumentarfotografie löst sich in die poetischen Freiräume d…