MARE TUUM #1


                         



Benedikt Burger
Vokabular

Vokabular

Benedikt Burger


At its core, photography is an attempt to understand—a way to bridge the distance between the self and the unknown.

Vokabular approaches a place that is in constant motion. Lanzarote—volcanic, wind-carved, contradictory—is not a backdrop, but a counterpart that resists being fully known. The island became a space of resonance, where observation, encounter, and uncertainty overlapped.

At the center of the project is a conceptual use of language. Selected Spanish words appear alongside the photographs—not as captions, but as associative extensions of the visual material. Referencing the format of a vocabulary book, these terms disrupt linear reading and open up layers of interpretation. Vokabular is less a document of place than a reflection on the act of photographic observation itself. It investigates how image and language can shape, distort, or fragment our understanding of an unfamiliar environment.



·       Desajuste — Unstimmigkeit

·       Distancia — Distanz

·       Fragmento — Fragment

·       Lazo — Band, Verbindung

·       Luz dura — hartes Licht

·       Máscara — Maske, Verhüllung

·       Postura — Haltung, Pose

·       Rastro — Spur, Abdruck

·       Resplandor — Leuchten, Glühen

·       Silueta — Silhouette

·       Tránsito — Übergang, Bewegung

·       Vacío — Leere, Vakuum

·       Vulnerabilidad — Verletzlichkeit