The photographs collected in this journal chronicle a brief, but unusual time in several Japanese cities and towns. Coming close to a locked down country, they seek to peek behind the curtain of a life more secluded and hidden than usual. Taking hints of otherwise unaffected buildings, these photographs take a look at their facades as mirrors of a daily life put on hold, a daily life which left its traces and carved its marks as a patina of scratched plaster, fading neon lights and weathered stains. Both the polished, reserved high-rises of downtown Tokyo and the idiosyncratic homes of the suburbs, which seem almost as having suffered shipwreck in a metropolis out of their time, are being brought into question.

Reminiscent of the logic of fukeiron, the Japanese principle of landscape theory, which understands such scenes as psychogeographic artefacts of human volition, one can read such seemingly meaningless facades as canvases on which complex histories were imprinted. They can be called to the witness stand, cross-questioned, and will narrate a story of absence. Not only that of the usual crowds, but more importantly, of the manifold relational ties, circumstances and events that have unfolded, taken place, and ceased before the photographer set up his camera and which continue some time after he left the scene.

Berlin/ Tokyo, Kanazawa, Osaka, Kyoto, 2020/ 2021

*Book, self published in 2021
Edition of 70. With 64 pictures

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Book, self published in 2021
Edition of 70. With 64 pictures
Paperback. 17x24cm
Design by Tobias Textor
Text by Matthias Planitzer

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Book, self published in 2017
Edition of 30. With 49 pictures
Number 1-10 as Hardcover Sold Out
Number 11-30 as Paperback Available
15x20cm each
Design by Michael Gschwendtner

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SICKY Magazine "Hard and Soft" Editorial. September 2024

WRPD Magazine "In Disguise" Editorial. October 2023

Fräulein Magazin "Antidote" Editorial. May 2022

L'OFFICIEL Austria "Frühling 2022: Minju Kim launcht eine gemeinsame Kollektion mit & Other Stories". March 2022

Vogue Germany "20 Top-Nachwuchsmodels – aus deutschen Agenturen – erzählen, wie alles begann". Portrait of Emma Todt. November 2020

Sicky Mag "Verdure Space". October 2020

Berlin Showroom in Paris LITICHEVSKAYA Lookbook S/S 2020. August 2019

The Forumist "Marta". August 2019

Der Greif Guest-Room curated by Alessia Glaviano
(Photo Editor at Vogue Italia and L’Uomo Vogue). January 2019

Unveil’d "City for the Blind". January 2019

Aint - Bad "City for the Blind". December 2018

Bird In Flight "City for the Blind". November 2018

Der Greif Guest-Room curated by Siobhán Bohnacker
(Senior Photo Editor at The New Yorker). May 2018

Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin "City for the Blind". January 2018

FotoRoom "City for the Blind". December 2017

Too Good To Be Photographed.
A book exploring an intricate relationship
between photography and failure. Featured among 47 artists from 17 countries worldwide. Edited by Paul Paper. Published by Lugemik, 2017

The Calvert Journal "Baltics Beyond". August 2016

Paper Journal "Baltics Beyond". March 2016

Vice "The Last Days of Euromaidan in Pictures"
Originally published in German and in translations on Vice USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Brasil, Romania, Greece etc. August 2014

Already heard and seen unavoidably much of this city, but never with own eyes.
Finally there myself. New world, new feeling, new dimensions.

Schon unvermeidbar vieles von dieser Stadt gehört und gesehen, bloß nie mit eigenen Augen. Endlich selbst da. Neue Welt, neues Gefühl, neue Dimensionen.

Berlin/ New York City, 2016 & 2018


*Fine Art Print
12 pictures, edition of 3 + A.P.
30x40cm (& 45x60cm)

Hieronymus Ahrens
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Studio GLAS
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12051 Berlin

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Hieronymus Ahrens is a professional photographer in Berlin.
His field of work is portrait, documentary and fashion photography.
In 2017 he graduated at "Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie", Berlin. In 2012 he received a Magister (M.A.) degree in Slavistics (Russian Literature) and History of Eastern Europe at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Hieronymus Ahrens ist professioneller Fotograf in Berlin.
Seine Arbeit widmet sich der Portrait-, Dokumentar- und Modefotografie.
2017 hat er sein Studium an der Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin abgeschlossen. 2012 hat er einen Magister (M.A.) Abschluss in Slavistik (Russische Literatur) und Geschichte Osteuropas an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München erworben.


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Awards:

Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2019: Shortlist PORTRÄT

Wellcome Photography Prize 2019: Shortlist

The Independent Photographer Open Call 2018: Finalist

Self Publish Riga 2018 photo book dummy contest: Shortlist

August Sander Award 2018 of Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur: Shortlist


Group Shows:

Wellcome Photography Prize 2019. Showcase at Lethaby Gallery of Central Saint Martins. London, UK. July 2019

Red Hook Labs inaugural Slide Slam at Foam Talent New York, USA. March 2019

THANK YOU, HAVE A NICE DAY. With works by Lara Ohl, Nora Hollstein, Hieronymus Ahrens, Tereza Mundilová, Maximilian Thuemler. Galerienhaus Berlin, Germany. Dec 2018

The Landskrona Open Call Window Exhibition. 50 photographers selected out of 976 applicants from 78 counties will have their work presented in places throughout Landskrona city center in the windows of its boutiques, hotels and restaurants. Landskrona, Sweden. June - Sept 2018

Self Publish Riga 2018. Shortlist of the photo book dummy contest exhibited at ISSP Gallery as part of Riga Photomonth 2018, Latvia. May - June 2018

Young PhotoBook. Fotobücher von Studierenden und AbsolventInnen deutscher Kunsthochschulen. Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Germany. April - May 2018

ELF - 11th graduating class of Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie. Kaufhaus Jandorf Berlin, Germany. Sept - Oct 2017

Annual show of Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, faculty of Fashion Design with the collaboration project "Sport-Han". Halle, Germany. July 2016

HALB - exhibition. In J.K. Berlin, Germany. March 2016



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On the outskirts of the Latvian capital, Riga, there is a "City for the Blind". About two hundred blind and visually impaired people live here. There is a rehabilitation center, a library for the blind where Braille books are produced, a boarding school, a clubhouse and other facilities organized to the needs of the residents.

The community in the residential area provides a shelter, assistance and activities for the blind, but the residents also seem isolated from the neighbouring urban environment.

Am Rande der lettischen Hauptstadt, Riga, gibt es eine "Stadt für Blinde". Hier leben etwa zweihundert Blinde und Menschen mit Sehbehinderungen. Auf dem Gelände befinden sich ein Rehabilitationszentrum, eine Bibliothek für Blinde, in der auch Bücher in Brailleschrift hergestellt werden, ein Internat, ein Clubhaus und weitere Einrichtungen, die auf die Bedürfnisse der Bewohner zugeschnitten sind.

Die Gemeinschaft in der Siedlung bietet Blinden zwar einen Schutzraum, zahlreiche Hilfestellungen und Aktivitäten, doch scheinen die Bewohner auch isoliert von der benachbarten urbanen Umgebung.

Berlin/ Riga, 2016-2017

*C-Print (analog, hand printed),
11 pictures, edition of 2 + A.P.
30x40cm

*Book, self published in 2017
Edition of 30. With 49 pictures

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A strange journey from Helsinki to Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius and Warsaw, 2015
Eine seltsame Reise von Helsinki nach Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius und Warschau, 2015

Published on Paper Journal
and The Calvert Journal

Pictures and text. Published on Vice.com in German and in translation on Vice USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Brasil, Italy, Greece etc, August 2014


Bilder vom „Euromajdan“ in Kiew

Bilder und Text. Veröffentlicht auf Vice.com sowie in Übersetzung auf Vice USA, Kanada, Australien, UK, Brasilien, Italien, Griechenland etc, August 2014