2008 | Herbert Böttcher
"Seamotion # 10" is a work by photographer Herbert Boettcher and shows the container ship Cap Caramel entering Singapore harbour. For his Seamotion project in 2004, Herbert Boettcher travelled aboard two container ships on seven-week voyages from Europe to South America and Asia.
Against sweeping panoramas, the photographer captures the interplay between the sea, the wind and huge onward-gliding container ships:
At a time when digital media is determining how we see the world, Herbert Boettcher consciously combines the use of conventional cameras with camera obscura - the pinhole camera. For Boettcher, this represents anything but taking recourse to photographic history. On the contrary, the two camera techniques – combined with digital image editing – provide him with the artistic freedom to see and approach familiar themes in new and different ways.
