Martin Blume - Review

Martin Blume

The photographer Martin Blume from Landau was honoured posthumously with the Dr Berthold Roland Photo Art Prize in 2015. This prize, originally endowed in 2008 by the Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz, was first awarded by the Ike and Berthold Roland Foundation in 2015. Blume, who died suddenly in March of last year, received the award for his outstanding life’s work and his commitment to analogue black-and-white photography. His photographic legacy ranges from poetic landscapes to expressive images of forbidding places such as the battlefields of Verdun or his final project, the Auschwitz concentration camp. Over the years, Blume made a name for himself with artistic black-and-white photographs in large, analogue formats, which found their way into many collections and have been presented in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. The exhibition in the Landesvertretung attempts a retrospective of Blume’s life’s work, which was so unexpectedly brought to an end, and recalls the sensitive storyteller with the camera.