• Jessica Backhaus Jesus and the Cherries
  • Jessica Backhaus Jesus and the Cherries
  • Jessica Backhaus Jesus and the Cherries
  • Jessica Backhaus Jesus and the Cherries
  • Jessica Backhaus Jesus and the Cherries
  • Jessica Backhaus Jesus and the Cherries
  • Jessica Backhaus Jesus and the Cherries
  • Jessica Backhaus Jesus and the Cherries
  • Jessica Backhaus Jesus and the Cherries

Jessica Backhaus Jesus and the Cherries

The photographer Jessica Backhaus has traveled in the region of the Polish province of Pomosrskie repeatedly since 1993. She spent a total of three and a half years portraying the town of Netno and its residents. She shows people in their apartments, at work, and in the untouched Polish landscape. With a sure eye and an unusual colour language, she points out important but easily overlooked details: plastic flowers and crocheted pillowcases, images of saints and lace doilies, and cherries preserved in mason jars. The pictures are neither intrusive nor tactless; she encounters people with dignity and full of admiration for the way of life of Poland's rural population. The intimate character of the photos suggests that the German- American photographer must have developed a special relationship to her subject: In Backhaus photographs we feel the warmth, cordiality, and authenticity with which she was received in Poland. The photographers clear gaze captured the beauty of everyday details and moods. Jesus and the Cherries describes a Poland still a long way from the modernizations that full integration in the European Union will bring. Jessica Backhaus thus tells a tale of traditional ways of life that may already belong to the past. Jessica Backhaus was born in Cuxhaven, Germany, and currently resides in New York. At the age of sixteen, she moved to Paris, where she spent the next eight years, studying photography and visual communications and working as a picture editor. During that time she mets Giselle Freund, who becomes her mentor. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States including the National Portrait Gallery, London and the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Jessica Backhaus is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York and The Photographers Gallery, London.


Hardcover 24,6 x 32,8 cm 144 pages 94 color illustrations English, German Available ISBN 978-3-936636-63-5 2005

Texts:

Monica Rydiger, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen

Exhibitions

Gruppenausstellungen

"Carl Schuch und die zeitgenössische Stillleben-Fotografie"
2013–2014

Siegerlandmuseum, Siegen
10.05.–02.06.2013

Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg
14.07.–08.09.2013

Städt. Kramer-Museum, Kempen
22.09.–24.11.2013

Kunstsammlungen, Zwickau
06.12.2013–16.02.2014


Einzelausstellungen

Wouter van Leeuwen Gallery, Amsterdam
25.05.–29.06.2013, Eröffnung 25.05.2013

Robert Morat Galerie
06.09.–Oktober 2013

Kunsthalle Erfurt
19.09.–24.11.2013

UNSEEN PHOTO FAIR, Robert Morat Galerie Booth, Amsterdam
25.09.–29.09.2013

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Oktober-November 2013, Eröffnung am 5. Oktober 2013

Stieglitz 19, Antwerpen
November–Dezember 2013

Maison de la Photographie, Lille
Winter 2013/14

Micamera Galerie, Mailand
Frühling 2014

Photographica Fine Art, Lugano
Frühling 2014

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