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Sebastian Klug is a visual artist and photographer based in Berlin. He started using photography whilst studying architecture and since 2008 has exhibited widely. His work has been shown as a Highlight at the European Month of Photography Festival in Berlin during 2010 and across venues in various cities including Venice, Munich, Amsterdam, London, Helsinki, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Turin, Chicago, Triest and Detroit.Using a Nokia 6300 mobile phone at low light levels, Klug creates an atmospheric visual diary that mixes the grain, noise and strange colours of his phone's pictures, with that of his nocturnal encounters. The people he photographs float like ghosts, leaving small traces of their existence as they journey through the night. (Adam Geary in Berlinoir photobook).
"Since 2012 I have worked with photographs to create three dimensional objects by cutting multiple prints into stripes and interweaving them. In some cases I combine a print with other materials such as fabrics or foils. As a result the original image is alienated, distorted, dissolved and pixelized.
The surface now begins to play an important role. The photograph is the starting point for a process that, although being linked to it, emancipates itself from the mere purpose of reproducing an image. The pushing, pulling and weaving of the strips form a relief-like structure. The rippled surface plays with perception. Depending on the viewers angle and distance as well as the position of the light source, the light is allowed to reflect in different ways, offering changing insights into its layered design. The structure forms a unity with the new picture, one would not exist without the other.” Sebastian Klug