Fatih Kurceren’s image series “Pithead” attempts to perceive the Ruhr region as a place where identities and firmly established social structures are dissolving. For more than 150 years, the region between the Ruhr and Lippe rivers has been shaped by immigration and the encounter of diverse cultures. […] Fatih Kurceren – himself an immigrant – takes an unbiased look at the region and its inhabitants. To do so, he moves along the blurred edges of a society whose center seems just as unclear as the questions about its norms, about its inside and outside, and about what is foreign and what is its own. It is the people themselves who are placed at the center, and who are seen in casual stagings and observations as the ones who recreate their selves and their surroundings from moment to moment. The much-cited structural change does not seem to come true for these people. […] Yet the people are not to be shown as mere victims of social grievances, but as actors of their own life designs (Tobias Zielony).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fatih Kurceren’s image series “Pithead” attempts to perceive the Ruhr region as a place where identities and firmly established social structures are dissolving. For more than 150 years, the region between the Ruhr and Lippe rivers has been shaped by immigration and the encounter of diverse cultures. […] Fatih Kurceren – himself an immigrant – takes an unbiased look at the region and its inhabitants. To do so, he moves along the blurred edges of a society whose center seems just as unclear as the questions about its norms, about its inside and outside, and about what is foreign and what is its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1783,2061,1785],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2152","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-design-photography","product_cat-new-releases","product_cat-photography","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n