My inspiration is my camera. It holds me, through it I can observe the world. For my projects, I have ideas in my head. The pictures come from the gut. The muse to get involved, wait what will happen. Apart from my self-made filters, I work with multiple exposures and the pinhole camera principle. The images are created at the moment of release in the camera.

Liquid days

I observe people in urban theatre. Often, I ask myself the question. Why? What is the reason for a fast walk, a pause, a photo? Stories are created in my head that I will never know to be true. With my camera I capture these moments, through self-circulated / self-designed filters I alienate them. It’s not about reality, it’s about mental cinema. Through alienation, I approach the space between photography and painting.

Parisgrammes / 1.5°

I observe places. What characterizes this place, what does it stand for, what layers and stories surround it? What environmental conditions influence this place?

Panta rhei

I observe the light, the water. Elements. Photography is painting with light.
Everything flows. A moment, a movement, a gust of wind, changes everything. Nothing remains. The beauty of transience.

About Bettina Loppe

Bettina Loppe is a Potsdam and Paris based artistic photographer and the woman behind the camera and foto_art_work. 

She has been passionate about photography since she was a child, but has really dedicated herself to it since her time in Paris. There she explored the city with her Canon EOS 30, which still accompanies her today, always following in the footsteps of the great French photographers – Willy Ronis, Robert Doisneau, Edouard Boubat and Henri Cartier-Bresson. At the same time, she took a further course in „photographie artistique en noir et blanc“ to deepen her knowledge of the basics of analogue photography.
Today, she mainly photographs digitally – and experiments with analogue filters she has created herself. Her pictures are created in the camera, at the moment the shutter is released; the effects are not created on the computer.
Her subjects are still Paris, the urban hustle and bustle. Bettina Loppe has lived with her family in Potsdam since 2006. It was here that her work on the Glienicke Bridge and the Havel was added.

Her work can be purchased in limited editions. If you are interested, please feel invited to email or call.