Christian Werner

About Christian Werner: Christian Werner is an international working photographer based in Berlin. His passion for portraying fascinating people has led him to photograph celebrities like Billie Eilish, M.I.A., Bret Easton Ellis, Harun Farocki and Susan Sarandon for 032c, Harper‘s Bazaar, Interview, Numéro, SSENSE, ZEITmagazin and other national and international outlets.

Werner has also published his works in several thematic books, sensitively showcasing different aspects of pop-cultural history with austerity, humour and poetry. Rather than approaching his themes from a purely photographic point of view, he always conceives them in the spirit of a discourse: LOS ANGELES (Korbinian Verlag) is an homage to the city of angels. It creates a dystopian and deserted cityscape, characterised by loneliness and the traces of a liberal-capitalist idea of life that has come to an end—while also presenting Werner’s unfiltered love for the town. STILLLEBEN BRD (Kerber Verlag) presents interior images from a house that has been deeply marked by the post-war period and Catholicism. BONN. DAS ATLANTIS DER BRD (Matthes & Seitz) contains very specific views of the city today, with its former government buildings and other disused sites of power.

»In Christian Werner’s photography, the subject is always simultaneously in both the present moment and the past«, said Süddeutsche Zeitung about his work. »They tell us about a turning point in our civilisation. Space, time, youth, natural resources, everything seems to abound in these pictures.«