Simone Nieweg ( 1 )

Simone Nieweg (born in 1962 in Bielefeld) focused from the very beginning on photography and started her studies with Bernd Becher in 1984, immediately after the “orientation year” [the first year at the university, when students are supposed to familiarize themselves with the system and to make decisions about their final goals]. She dates her first independent work from 1986, when she switched to colour photography. Her first series centred around the anonymous architecture of gardens: the self-made toolsheds, garden cottages, or pigeon houses, this is something personal and could be re-created very easily. She then created photos of department stores and black-and-white city-scapes as well, but most impressive are the colour photographs of garden areas, where people use the land that is at their disposal, free of the city planners’ ideas about order, how to grow vegetables or to raise rabbits or doves, I really like the way that this is conveyed and the way in which the people's own land comes into it.

The way she photographs the garden space and tool sheds, and people's own land interests me and It is close to an idea I had of a shoot within people's gardens.  Its such a personal place to a family and can really tell a lot about a person or a family's home personality. 

This work I wanted to include as a post purely because they are so simple and are of the same topic and theme just completely different. The images are names very simply, i.e, field of cabbages. The idea behind this work is for capturing what is real and what is there.  The way the images are shot emphasis on the actual topic of the images which is growing things. 

I would like to re-visit these images again when it comes down to my final Idea, I would like to have a similarity in these images as I too look at the layout of people's gardens, consider why they have put things in certain places for example.  I could do something similar to this, and i shall remember it as a 'garden' idea for now.  I will still stick to a theme of the same but different.