The young German photographer Sören Meschede was born 1976 in Stuttgart. 18 years ago, his father introduced the 12 year-old schoolboy to the world of emulsions and images, and this world never lost his grip on him. He maintained this avid interest in photography, which provided a creative outlet during his studies of philosophy and law in Göttingen (Germany), Córdoba (Spain) and Berlin (Germany). In his student years he worked for magazines and studios and organised several photo exhibitions in Stuttgart (Germany) and Córdoba (Spain).

Since Mai 2004, Sören is living in Spain, mostly contributing feature-stories to Spanish and German newspapers, but in his new exhibition he shows us the more experimental branch of his work. Ever since interested in the movements and shifting of time, he tries to express in his images a new way of not only capturing an instant but the whole of a situation.

Classical photography tries to catch the decisive moment of a situation in the split of a second. This is the camera’s inherent way of expression. But, in viewing an entire situation, don’t you have to question: Is there really any split of second, which could be truly considered the decisive one?

The classical photographer usually tries to satisfy this question implementing his own perspective of the “essential moment”. However, with his portraits, Sören Meschede attempts to illustrate emotion in a more coherent manner than classical photography is able to do. Using an ordinary scanner, he records the entire situation, implementing the whole broad band of instants. This method of scanning differs from the norm of taking individual photos with a camera since the ray of light in a scanner slowly passes and captures millions of images to finally compose a unique tableau of the situation on one sheet of paper. These scanner-photographs might have no clear optic, thus are able to expose for example the whole variety of a person’s feeling. So the images reveal hidden sensations to the spectator, that would have been hidden, capturing only the “decisive moment”

索伦-梅舍德，1976年出身于德国斯图加特的年轻的摄影师。18年前，他的父亲把这个仅有12岁的男孩带入了感光乳胶剂和图像的世界里，从此他就再也没让这个世界在他的手中丢失。他始终保持着那份对摄影执著的兴趣， 这也为他在德国哥廷根，西班牙科尔多瓦以及德国的柏林学习哲学和法律的时候提供了创作的出路。在他学生时代，他在一些工作室，杂志社工作过，也曾在德国斯图加特和西班牙的科尔多瓦组织过一些摄影的展览。

从2004年五月，索伦一直住在西班牙，大多时间是为西班牙和德国的一些报纸写一些专题报道，但在他新的一次展览中他为我们展示了他作品中具有试验性的分支。从他开始对运动和时间的转移感兴趣开始，他试图在他的作品中表达一种新的摄影形式，那不仅仅是捕捉一瞬间的图像而是一个完整的情境。 传统的摄影家试图在一霎那的时间里表现一个情境的重要瞬间。这也是摄像机固有的表现方式。但是，展现整个情境，你是否会问：真的会有一瞬间可以真的被认为是重要的瞬间吗？

传统的摄影家经常尝试着通过实现他个人对于‘重要瞬间’的看法来满足这个问题。然而，在他的肖像中，索伦-梅舍德尝试着用一种比传统摄影更能表现连贯的方式表现情感。 用一台普通的扫描仪，他记录这个情境实现整个宽频的瞬间。这种扫描方法不同于一般单独相片的拍摄方法， 是用一架照相机在扫描仪的红外线光束慢慢移动的同时捕捉大量的相片，最终在一张普通的纸上把这个情境中别具一格的生动场面展现出来。这些扫描出来的图像也许没有清晰的视觉效果，所以能够表现出例如人类丰富多彩的感情。因此这种图像向观众揭示了本来隐藏着只被‘重要瞬间’捕捉到的感情。