Living Climate: A Tale of Three Cities- exhibition of photographs by André Luetzen started at Uru Art Harbour, Kochi

André Luetzen, Tale of Three Cities, Inside Out Kochi, 2015

Uru Art harbor, the art gallery at Mattancherry in Kochi (Kerala, India) started the next exhibition ‘Living Climate: A Tale of Three Cities’ an exhibition of photographs by André Luetzen focusing on three cities with different weather conditions- Kochi in Southern India, Arkhangelsk in North-West Russia and Khartoum in Sudan. In this project André Luetzen approaches the question of how climate influences people and their ways of living and documented how climate defines living situations and affects a diverse interplay between private and public. All photographs were taken between 2014 and 2017. The exhibition started on January 17, 2018, at URU art harbour, Kochangadi, will continue until February 28, 2018. The visiting time is 10.30am to 07.00pm (closed on Mondays).

 The exhibition is conducted with the support of Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan.

‘Zhili Byli’ (Once upon a time...) combines images of contemporary living and housing conditions with a series of portraits of residents from the city of Arkhangelsk, the city in northwest Russia with freezing temperatures for eight months a year. ‘Inside Out’ is photographed in Kochi, southern India, during monsoon season. The pictures of this series focus on the life and living conditions in the city of Kochi during the months of monsoon. Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, is located where the Blue Nile and White Nile Rivers converge. The city actually consists of three distinct cities which are divided by the Nile and its two arms. The sub-Saharan desert climate produces a dry heat of 46 degrees.

ANDRÉ LÜTZEN

Born in 1963 in Hamburg, André Lützen studied visual communication at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and at the International Center of Photography New York. He has received various awards for his work, which has been shown in numerous exhibitions such as the Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, the Krefelder Kunstmuseen, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, at the New York Photo Festival and at Photo Espana.


His photography has been published in several monographs- Generation Boul Fale (2001), Loch im Kopf (2005), Before Elvis there was nothing (2008), Public Private Hanoi (2010), Zhili Byli(2014), Inside Out Kochi (2015) and Up-River Book (2017).

(Content/photo courtesy: Uru Art Harbour)