Jan Shuenke (Germany):

I am sitting in a room different to the one you are sitting in now

“I am sitting in a room different to the one you are sitting in now is a series of photographs taken from hotel rooms around the world. Showing the view outside the safety and comfort of the room, these images depict a fast-changing society of rearranging landscapes. Some of the photographs are supported by quotes from poets like Botho Strau?, ‘There is this deep longing for rashness which leads back to the early manifestos of modernism: To sort out the old and break with it, to build new cities, to create a new mankind and its structure – from soul to car tyre. The great common desire to build and form, the aesthetic passion for expansive renewal, although all of this will end in a ridiculous, even deathly way...’”

Jan Schuenke was born in Starnberg, Germany in 1978. He undertook a photographic apprenticeship in Munich from 1996-1999 and internships with Melle Pufe Whs and FILMHAUS in Berlin from 2000-2002. He has subsequently worked in a freelance capacity for numerous magazines and assisted several international photographers and studios, Armin Brosch, Poby and Markus Pritzi, and was First Assistant to Hubertus Hamm from 2006-2008. Since 2009 he has worked in a freelance capacity for clients including BMW, Mandarin Oriental, Meissen Porcelain, Munk, OMV, Zum Tobel, AD, Park Avenue, Baumeister and SZ-Magazin. He has received an honourable mention in the International Photography Awards in four categories and participated in exhibitions in Germany.

Images © Jan Shuenke.