Christian Siekmeier

Hunting Me, Hunting You
C-type prints, 2004
16x20, Editon of 6

For Hunting Me Hunting You, I return to the small village deeply embedded in the countryside of the north of Germany where I spent my childhood and adolescence. I create a visual dialogue between my father and myself based on our individual obsessions with hunting and photography.
The differences between us, it turns out, are marginal; both of us accumulate trophies as kinds of self-referential confirmation. Both activities are reflections of our immensely different understandings of masculinity.
Hunting Me, Hunting You is an investigation into the way we relate to each other, to the medium of photography and to the space around us and presents a different take on the old story of father and son.

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