Photo art at Saisonstart

Péter Nádas is not interested in the dazzling splendor of the blazing light, but rather the ray in the darkness that illuminates details (Galerie-Peter-Sillem).

Over the last few decades, Frankfurt has developed a prominent position as a location for photographic art. The metropolis on the Main is not only home to the DZ Bank Art Foundation and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundationbut also home to active networks such as the Professional Association of Independent Photographers and Film Designers (PLOT PROJECTS) and the Photography Forum Frankfurt. A large exhibition of works by 26 Japanese women photographers - from the 1950s to the present day - provides an impressive overview of an often underestimated chapter in the history of photography.

The galleries also set strong accents. In the Peter Sillem Gallery gallery, the Hungarian writer and photographer Péter Nádas is showing his series Lichtgeschichte and Neue Lichter. Here, light itself becomes the motif - not as a means of depiction, but as a visible phenomenon that defines space and perception.

Accentuated in a completely different way Ralf Peters accentuates his conceptual photographs at Bernhard Knaus Fine Art. Under the title SWEETS and PARADISE, he confronts viewers with an aesthetic between nature and simulation, beauty and artificial exaggeration.

At Sakhile&Me finally opens Ana Paula dos Santos opens up a decidedly political perspective. Her photography is characterized by childhood memories in Brazil, the study of human geography and decolonial theories. Her works invite us to question our own view of images, bodies and narratives - and to see the power of photography as a social medium in a new light.