Johann Husser is a photographer born in Kemerovo, Russia, currently living and working in Cologne, Germany.
Initially studying Spatial Planning, he switched to photography and received his BA in Photography from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund in late 2017. He is currently pursuing a Post-Graduate Diploma at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and is a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
Through his work, he has a clear intent that pushes him. He deals with the psycho-geographical impact of the built surroundings we live in, focusing on and the associative memory explored with the photographic language.
About ‘Our Only True Life Is In The Future’ – words by Johann Husser:
Our Only True Life Is In The Future, is an associative work with the aim of transporting the viewer into a hypothetical future vision. The title derives from a quote of O´Briens monologue in 1984 by Orwell and I was captivated by how the sentence established a particular mood and atmosphere in me. At the time, I was researching and browsing through the free image archive of the NASA, in particular, the images from the 60s and early 70s, around the time of the Apollo Program. The NASA images had a very specific visual vocabulary, kind of similar to some I had already done for the project itself: That’s the reason why I decided to incorporate NASA images into my work. Not specifying which images in the project are mine and which from the archives it’s a decision taken on purpose in order to dissolve the authorship of my own photographs and the ones of the NASA. This helped me to establish a dialogue between those image vocabularies creating a rather dystopian voyage, which is set by taking a step back looking at the present.
