Michael Jochum’s photography comes from an inner need, a feeling that leads him to search for an image: one that is always followed by the next in an ongoing process. His subject is photography itself. He works with analog film, inspired by Fernando Pessoa’s idea: »The highest truth lies in fiction.« His images and sequences create connections that go beyond what is shown. Portraits, objects, and landscapes tell stories like dreams, where the unseen becomes more important than what is visible. Gemischter Satz captures his artistic approach. The name comes from a type of wine made by mixing different grapes, harvested and fermented together. Here, this process is a metaphor for the book: black-and-white photos from various series are newly combined. An invisible thread connects the images without following a timeline, making Jochum’s visual style feel more like poetry than prose. The book also includes a literary text by Anna Weidenholzer.

Michael Jochum, *1953 in Vienna; lives and works in Munich.