Genius Loci

In the beginning of 2012, photographer Thomas Kellner received a surprising email from Yekaterinburg in the Russian Urals, to form a project with exhibition and book for the city's anniversary in 2013, because Yekaterinburg was founded almost 300 years ago, by Georg Wilhem Henning, a Siegen Citizen. This was barely known and Thomas Kellner started his research and is now finalizing genius Loci. During the years of study Thomas Kellner began to work with pinhole cameras in the subject of art which built the basis for his approach that he is following to the present day. In his early works experimenting with material, photographic methods and contents was crucial. It included building pinhole cameras himself in order to adopt them to the purpose he was aiming at. The results reflect a diversity of styles and subjects.