philipp meuser photography

BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS

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digital publication, 2018

Neos Kosmos ist eine freies Projekt des Autors Lukas Schepers und der Fotografen Philipp Meuser und Kolja Warnecke.
Im März/April 2018 bereisten sie Griechenland, um zu dokumentieren, wie sich der wirtschaftliche Kollaps auf
Verhalten und Zeitgeist der griechischen Bevölkerung
ausgewirkt hat. Mit welchen Problemen sieht sich die
Gesellschaft konfrontiert, welche sind lösbar und welche
nicht? Was passiert, wenn der Mensch plötzlich auf sich
selbst zurückgeworfen wird? Die Recherchereise wurde
finanziell von der ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius unterstützt.

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Neorrurales, book. 2017
Edition of 20 (3 copies left)
120€

In urbanized Spain, more than 80% of people live in cities and thousands of villages remain remain empty. Most of them are decayed, and some of the architectural and cultural history of Spain is being lost.

The value of the province and of traditional life, which has shaped the life of centuries, are forgotten. Now, after the financial crisis, the need to rediscover the country and combine traditional life with modern amenities is growing. It is time to rediscover the value of the country beyond tourism, beyond gastronomic, architectural and scenic attractions.

The photographic project „Neorrurales“ reflects on the reconstruction of lost places. It shows the environment in which these changes take place and presents the people who decide to live outside the city. People who consciously and responsibly deal with nature, the architectural and cultural heritage and try to preserve the original.

Link to the project:
https://philippmeuser.de/neorrurales

Behelfsheim, book, 2022 / 2025

SOLD OUT
With an epilogue by Cale Garrido

Self-published
First edition of 50
16 x 20 cm
72 pages
Inkjet-printed softcover
Saddle stitched swiss binding
Signed Baryt-Print
35,00 €

Link to the project: https://philippmeuser.de/kadosh

KADOSH, book, 2015
The Hebrew term Kadosh refers to holy, purified, elected or sacred in Judaism.

The Israeli occupation and particularly the construction of the settlements in the West Bank affect the future of a Palestinian State. 'Kadosh', a documentary project about the Israeli settlers, reflects on their intimate experience of life and their status as members of the occupation.

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2nd edition available
35€
on www.behelfsheim.com

1st edition
(5 signed copies left, 120 €)

order via:
https://behelfsheim.com/

Enver Hirsch & Philipp Meuser

During and shortly after the end of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands makeshift homes (Behelfsheime), were built in and around the destroyed cities of Germany. Many of them were built amidst allotment gardens (Schreber-gärten), as these had largely been spared from the bombing of the Allies. Constructed of debris or simplest building materials, most of these houses have since undergone a continuous structural and spatial upgrade.

The first inhabitants and their descendants were provided with a lifelong right to stay, but the time of the Behelfsheime is slowly coming to an end, as this form of living is no longer tolerated: Living space in Germany's big cities is becoming scarce and allotment gardens offer an opportunity for urban densification. After the death or departure of the inhabitants, the houses are demo-lished or scaled down to the size of an allotment garden cottage.

The photo book “Behelfsheim” deals with the inside and outside of the last remaining Behelfsheime. It combines artistic-documentary photographs with historical graphics, the protocol of a surreal panel discussion and classifies the phenomenon in terms of architectural history.

Hirsch and Meuser document a type of house and its materiality, in which post-war history becomes visible and create the last possible documentation of a temporary arrangement that has survived to this day.

PARADOX COUNTY

digital publication, 2021

Paradox County is an interactive photographic playground – a place of longing, a subjective journey through a North American social landscape that promises nothing but freedom and boundless possibilities.

We, three European voyagers, are guided by road movies, travel literature and photographic clichés: abandoned mines, small towns, makeshift homes and self-determined lives. Paradox County’s inhabitants, cutouts from reality, embody a countercurrent to the growing homogeneity of society and humankind’s careless manners towards nature. They are heroes and anti heroes of dreamed and lived experiences, striving for individualism and personal freedom.

Six years after the trip, we present a synergy of an exhibition and a photobook that merge in the digital space; a disoriented portrayal of the American Dream, wafting somewhere between disillusion and hope.

Link to the project: https://paradoxcounty.com/

ATLAS

digital publication, 2022

An audiovisual journey between Germany and Romania

ATLAS – A place that is only functional, lonely and faceless, is a non-place.

Enver Hirsch and Philipp Meuser address this construct in their photographic work ATLAS, in which they examine identity-free highway service areas and bus terminals on the work migration route between Germany and Romania.
They encounter migrant workers, home travelers, and other restless and resting people.

They use the means of sequencing in order to blur thousands of kilometers, always lingering in the non-place. Through meticulous anthro-pological attention to detail, the viewer is supposedly transported to the same place over and over again.

Even from an auditory perspective every non-place is the return of the endlessly changing same. The sound artist burgund t brandt uses field recordings, electro-acoustic loops and ASMR sounds to explore the relation-ship between recurrence and repetition as a space of experience.

The interweaving of the works into a digital audiovisual piece by neueMETA dissolves the boundaries between the travelers and the space around them.

Link to the project: https://atlas.neuemeta.de/