Conceptual nominee

This series was created on long road trips along the Texas Gulf Coast. As cruising on endless highways is something quintessentially American, the car was my preferred means of transportation. For this series, I shot all of my photos directly from the moving car and used my rear mirror as a style element. To create an experience of authenticity, I selected an angle similar to my first impression. Which means: drive-by impressions taken at the height of the car’s dashboard.
My key design principle: I discovered that my choice of motifs wasn’t so much about summer impressions, but rather about that certain morbidity, the melancholy, and the sadness that surrounds the coastal region in November. A mood like something out of a noir film ...

Technology used: All of the images in this series were shot with an analog Minolta CLE 35mm viewfinder-camera – mounted with the standard Rokkor 40mm f/2.0 lens. I photographed both on T-MAX film at 400 ASA and, in the fastest version, at 3200 ASA.

For Jörg Rubbert, city life and the city as a developing urban organism are among his preferred photographic subjects. He is represented in numerous exhibitions and publications on topics of contemporary photography - with a focus on Paris, New York and the American South.
He represents the humanistic direction in photography, which focuses on people's social environment. His photographs have been shown at exhibitions and photo festivals at home and abroad and published in numerous (print) media, including CNN, ZEIT, FAZ, WELT, Tagesspiegel, PHOTO International, Photo Klassik, PHOTOGRAPHIE. He lives as a freelance photographer in Berlin (Germany).