Werner Anselm Buhre

Werner Anselm Buhre (Germany) lives and works in Vienna, Austria and is an independent photographer. He began photographing with a small Minox camera that his father gave him at the age of 13. After 11 years of working in press in an IT company and as a magazine editor, Buhre became a full time photographer in 2010, focusing on fine art and architecture projects. Mostly self-taught, he has also attended classes at Euregio Prague Photo School, International Summer Academy in Salzburg and Rencontre d’Arles.

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
We gyrate in the night and are consumed by the fire.

This Latin palindrome was the starting point of this cycle that currently consists of seven images. Buhre chose it as it talks about darkness, a darkness in which we see and realise little, while also speaking of our errant circling ways in life as well as of our passions, expressed in the form of the text itself which can be read both from left to right, as well as right to left.

These images represent a certain cultural globalization, created with many influences. Elements from many nations, cultures and periods are united. They are self-portraits, in which the artist functions as a kind of shaman, connecting between sky and earth, up and down, east and west, past and present, uniting certain elements out of the different cultural regions in his person.

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