{"id":75131,"date":"2026-01-05T11:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&p=75131"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:26:17","slug":"two-photographers-in-a-coffin","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/collecting\/two-photographers-in-a-coffin\/","title":{"rendered":"Staging mortality: two photographers in a coffin"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Two photographers lie down in a coffin and photograph each other. What sounds like breaking a taboo is an exploration of commerce and ritual \u2013 and of the question: is this allowed?
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Darkness. The smell of wood. <\/strong>Clara’s first thought inside the coffin: \u2018Will anyone hear me if I knock?\u2019 She isn’t in a cemetery but trying out a model at a funeral trade fair. The coffin is the starting point for a joint investigation by the photographers Antonia Teichert and Clara Sch\u00f6ttke, who approach death in a way that is direct yet multi-layered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018I think there’s a sort of morbid curiosity lurking in people to try it out. After all, you’ll never know what it feels like, because by the time you go in there, you’re no longer alive,\u2019 says Clara.<\/p>\n\n\n \n\n

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With \u2018<\/strong>LG 500\/R\u2019, Antonia Teichert and Clara Sch\u00f6ttke have created a photographic work about death. It is an open-ended exploration, a thought process, a collection of different kinds of images. No plot, no clear narrative, no easy answer. <\/strong>Instead, a mosaic of conversations, photos, objects and internet screenshots. In the photobook dummy, the sequence and arrangement of the square images follow a clear order \u2013 perhaps an attempt to give form to something that can’t really be grasped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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