Rolls by Christoph Jirjahlke

About "Rolls"

by Christoph Jirjahlke

About the artwork

Our oven was demented today and instead of 200 degrees it performed a little hellfire. What do you do with 6 burnt buns apart from throwing them away? That's right.

Nikon D850, 2.8/60 mm D Micro Nikkor, Studio.

Only when the bun (chosen) is completely charred does it show its true colours. The still light-coloured areas in the remaining black come into their own.

Banal aesthetics: fascination with the everyday. I started my first photo exhibition series in the early 2000s under this working title. Here is an old newspaper article:

Whether it's peeling paint on a house wall, a glass of beer or a breakfast egg: Christoph Jirjahlke is fascinated by these and many other things that usually attract little attention. The 38-year-old graphic designer and advertising photographer from Pattens works in a calm, clear and detail-orientated manner,
clear and detail-orientated manner, the 38-year-old graphic designer and advertising photographer from Pattens deliberately works against the trend of our time: characterised by fast, frequently cropped image sequences in film and the sometimes
the sometimes aggressive world of advertising
his images encourage the viewer to pause,
a closer look and the view of
"the aesthetics of every thing".
Jirjahlke sometimes goes into so much detail
detail that the reference of the motif is almost
almost completely removed from reality. Profound and not immediately recognisable, the photos initially puzzle the viewer. The ambivalence
between closeness and remoteness
to explore the pictures intensively and to track down the reasons for this peculiarity.

Christoph Jirjahlke tells exciting
tells the stories of everyday life and discovers the beauty of the profane and the details with a curious eye.