Stefan Applis | Photography | Spaces, Places & Practices

Overview of photographic work in all projects since 2019

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Spring 2022: Former Nazi Party Ralley Grounds, Nuremberg (Germany)

Photographer: Stefan Applis

Pedal boats in the shape of pink flamingos on the lake in front of the unfinished Congress Hall on the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg.

Book project & research project on urban space considered as a palimpsest with the aim of opening up different layers of use and the second history since 1945

July 2019: Ushguli,Svaneti, Georgia (Caucasus)

Photographer: Stefan Applis

Young woman in mourning clothes in front of a dilapidated building from the Soviet era in Ushguli in the high mountain region of Svaneti in Georgia

Book project & reasearch project on cultural and natural space change through tourism in Svaneti (Georgia, Caucasus) since 2010

October 2019: Former Soviet health resort of Tskaltubo/Tsqaltubo in Georgia (Caucasus)

Photographer: Stefan Applis

Grandmother with grandchildren in the former Soviet health resort of Tsqaltubo in Georgia, which has served as accommodation for internally displaced persons in Georgia for more than 30 years since the early 1990s

Research project in Georgia since 2019

July 2023: Landscape in Tusheti, Georgia (Caucasus)

Photographer: Stefan Applis

Tusheti in northern Georgia, the most species-rich temperate forest region in the northern hemisphere, is one of the last regions in Europe where transhumance is practised.

Book projects (2022-2025)

March 2017: Turkish wedding in Furth (Germany)

Photographer: Stefan Applis

The small city of Fürth is one of the major arrival cities in Germany according to Dough Saunders‘ definition of an ‘arrival city’

Book project & research project since 2020

Oktober 2020: Soviet-era bathroom chair in Svaneti, Georgia (Caucasus)

Photographer: Stefan Applis

„Uncovering the objects, recovering them, making them speak – that is the path of archaeology proposed here. (…) The world is viewed and made legible through the history of things, by analysing signs and forms of traffic, places and routines (…).“ (Karl Schlögel 2017, p. 21f.)

June 2008: Bazaar in Bukhara, restored since Soviet times, football ground with goal painted on the left-hand side

Photographer: Stefan Applis