Christiana Tschoepe, born in 1963, is a German photo artist. She lives and works in the Rhineland and commutes between the cities of Cologne, Bonn and Münster. Even as a young woman, the ambitious amateur photographer often took blurry photos – photos “that others would immediately delete”.
Today Tschoepe embarks - under the artist’s name #else grüsst - on creative visual jour-neys through her everyday life – the focus is on people, especially women, in unstaged movement. She took her photos in subways, at train stations, in shopping streets, on esca-lators. Her photos tell stories – of people rushing to work, hurrying to catch the train, flee-ing the rain or strolling towards an appointment.
Away from the mainstream, Tschoepe photographs according to her own rules. Photos are created that often demand a second look and sometimes irritate the viewer's expecta-tions: is that supposed to be the case now?
Instead of a frozen movement, which can only be recognized from the context, she cre-ates photos through the movement, the shaking of the camera, which retain their own dynamic through the motion blur – and are alive. In her instagram stories, she comple-ments her photos with music as another "moving" dimension.
Tschoepe has 2 daughters, is a science journalist and head of communications for a large charity. The first photo book projects are "Farbauftritt”, "Moving Moment", "Sneak a Peak" and "#else grüsst". - created in cooperation with the photo book designer Mirja Hespe.
Another photo book "blurred women" is in progress. Tschoepe has been publishing her photos on Instagram since 2019 under elsegruesst.