Michael Ackerman, 1967, Israel, works and lives in Berlin. Ackerman’s atmospheric world of dark, gritty B&W imagery, create an intimate and knowable, but also, at times, a furtive and mysterious visual experience for his viewer. His work often oscillates between his own story and the broader sweep social and cultural history. His third book Half Life, containing images that focus on Poland and Berlin, form a narrative in which the past and present, the temporal and geographical blend together subjectively. He invites us to witness a purely photographic act that extracts palpable sensations from the places, the societies and the reality he explores.
Ackerman received the Nadar Award for his book "End Time City" in 1999, and the Infinity Award for Young Photographer by the International Center of Photography in 1998. Since his first exhibition, in 1999, Ackerman has made his mark by bringing a new, radical and unique approach. Half Life is Michael Ackermanʼs third opus. After “End Time City” (1999), a crazy journey through the city of Varanasi, India, and then “Fiction” (2001), where unity of place is shattered into a sequence of images that seem to have been made in haste between New York and Europe, “Half Life” fills in the outlines of a territory that Michael Ackerman has depicted as his life has progressed, in recent years focusing on Poland and Berlin.
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