Christa Frieda Vogel is a German
photographer who lives and works in
Berlin, Germany. She has published several
photo books and presented her work in national and international exhibitions.
Vogel's
photography is mostly
documentary: In the series (and book) Georgien (
Georgia) she photographed people as if they were their own monuments. Her pictorial strategy rests, both in color and black and white images, on the
long shot and the central figure.[2]
For her exhibition and book project Artistanbul Vogel portrayed 34 fine artists, male and female, of three generations in Istanbul and accompanied them to their favourite places. During the two years of work on this series she established the gallery project Galata House of Art in
Beyoğlu which hosts both artists from Berlin and Istanbul. It was there where Vogel presented in 2011 her Artistanbul-series flanked by works of the portrayed, among them
Ara Güler,
Burhan Doğançay, Mahmut Celayir, Erdoğan Zumrutoğlu and Hande Varsat.[3]
Those of Vogel's works which are not primarily
documentary, like the
polaroids of "Erotica", approach the subjects also by means of close-up and blur. Similar strategies are employed within the "Blaues Wunder" series (Blue Miracle) as a study of the (under-)water world in general whilst the b/w series Jellyfish focuses in particular on the bizarre bodies of the
gelatinous creatures.[4]
Georgien. Begegnung mit Ursprung und Zeit (introductory notes by Alexander Kartosia and Thomas Roth), Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2008,
ISBN978-3-89904-305-1[5]
Artistanbul: Contemporary Artists Present Their Favourite Places. Seltmann + Söhne, Lüdenscheid 2011 und 2013,
ISBN978-3-934687-95-0[6] (also exhibition catalogue with an essay by Johannes Odenthal)
2008 Foundation Sergej Mawritzki,
Berlin, book presentation and exhibition: Georgien, Begegnung mit Ursprung und Zeit (Georgia: An Encounter with Origin and Time)
2009 Gallery Brockstedt,
Berlin: Figur in der Landschaft (Figure in a Landscape), with Ernst Baumeister[7]