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THE TRUTH ABOUT GERMANS
by Kirsten Wilmink
With drinking beer and eating bratwurst with potato salad the family Meier from Meppen spends its daily life. Just like every other German family, they are always in a bad mood, members of the local football and shooting club and proud owners of a garden plot. Internationally they are well-known for their narrow-minded petty bourgeois mentality and their very special dress style: socks, Birkenstock sandals and traditional Bavarian Lederhosen.
Prejudices reffering Germans and Germany is the topic of my final exam. A big number of well-known clichés will be presented in a special exaggerated way. Clothes, accessories, locations, body postures and facial expressions will be adapted meticulously and directed and photographed in the minutest detail.
Every visualized prejudice shows a curios and scheming beauty which can support or refute the truth in a serious and/or amusing way.
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very witty images, great production, well done!!
i love these photos. remind me of norman rockwell paintings
Very well done.
Im kind oof overwhelmed by these little details.
Awesome - the pictures uncover the truth about the Germans !
Great composition with lovely details. Perfect use of image processing supports the general topic. The detailed and precise work let me assume that the author herself is part of the overall topic…german quality!!!
Im glad that we all know that there is no global truth. Not about Germans not about the Dutch and not about anybody.
I have seen this work in real live big prints, impressive art with lots of humor. I just love it! Curious about your next work…
Awesome pictures! Great how she uses her individual technique to communicate her messages! Reminds me of Carel Willink…
[...] Kirsten Wilmink recently graduated from the ArtEZ AKI Academy of Visual Arts in Photographic Design and is continuing her studies at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. As a cross media designer Wilmink’s main focus is staged photography. Her graduation project, The Truth About Germans, depicts stereotypes and the existing prejudices about German people in which she used her own family members as models. Of her work she says, ‘With drinking beer and eating bratwurst with potato salad the family Meier from Meppen spends its daily life. Just like every other German family, they are always in a bad mood, members of the local football and shooting club and proud owners of a garden plot. Internationally they are well-known for their narrow-minded petty bourgeois mentality and their very special dress style: socks, Birkenstock sandals and traditional Bavarian Lederhosen’. Her work is currently on view at Cabinodd Collections in Amsterdam. [...]
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