This publication is featured on PiE in conjunction with the exhibition Jörg Brüggemann “Tres Viajes” at Robert Morat Galerie Berlin.

Jörg Brüggemann has traveled to Chile and South America three times. On one of his trips, he drove several thousand kilometers across the continent, capturing landscapes and encounters in his photographs. He was inspired to do so by a dream in which he encountered his deceased mother. On another trip, he photographed political unrest and demonstrations in Valparaíso.

The three trips—there are three chapters in the book—are, in their visual language, far more journeys of dreams and feelings—perhaps also in search of himself—than documentary images of places, people, or political circumstances. The three chapters, which are wonderfully distinct from one another in their design and materiality while remaining intertwined, read like narrative strands that cannot be explained immediately, as they leave room for personal discoveries and fantasies. A short personal text by the author continues this narrative style in words.

It is also interesting that the photographer, who in his last book pursued a sober topic such as the German autobahn over several years, now shows that a travel narrative can perhaps also be a healing process for oneself and that inner images enable a completely unique, not always explainable approach to the world.

Jörg Brüggemann (*1979) has been a member of the Ostkreuz agency since 2009 and is co-director of the renowned Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin-Weißensee.