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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Stefan Canham: Bauwagen « Previous | |Next »
April 6, 2010

Stefan Canham's photographic work focuses on the usage of urban space, in particular on marginalized communities and forms of self-housing. He says about his Bauwagen: Mobile Squatters project:

In the 1980s people began to use “Bauwagen” (trailers originally produced to accommodate workers on building sites), circus wagons, lorries and busses to occupy quite often potentially valuable but disused plots of inner city land. Today there are around one hundred “Bauwagen”-sites in German towns and cities, from Flensburg up on the Danish border down to Tuebingen and Munich. There may be as many as ten thousand people living in “Bauwagen”...Bauwagen” are alien elements wedged into the city’s structure, improvised out of rundown vehicles, wooden beams and beautiful window-frames scavenged from demolished buildings, metal sheeting, styrofoam, tar, and just plain debris. Since they lack cellar and attic, the outside is used as storage space.

Canham’s photographs of interiors are clearly meant to show how homely these trailers can be.

CanhamSBauwagenBerlin.jpg Stefan Canham, Berlin, 2004, from Bauwagen series
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