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| Verlag | Steidl |
| Auflage | 2025 |
| Seiten | 232 |
| Format | 24,7 x 2,4 x 30,4 cm |
| Gewicht | 1590 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 396999246X |
| EAN | 9783969992463 |
| Bestell-Nr | 96999246A |
This book is Winfried Bullinger's extensive photographic archive of vernacular architecture from Eastern and Central Africa. A long-term project Bullinger has dedicated himself to since 2008, his portraits of African pastoralists' diverse homes-including tents, open dwellings and huts-preserve indigenous architectural traditions that have been largely overlooked in the post-colonial era and are today threatened by changing ways of life. His images, each made with a large-format camera and the silver-gelatin technique, are born from a dialogue with the inhabitants and reveal architecture as a direct response, refined over centuries, to a people's specific environment and culture. Despite their variety, the structures are all made from materials available directly on site: renouncing anything superficial, they are radically efficient and sustainable. Bullinger's vision has echoes of Bernd and Hilla Becher's systematic approach to photographing architectural types, yet his focus is s olely on architecture as dwelling. Although (with few exceptions) no inhabitants are to be seen in his images, Bullinger records their many traces; his camera perspective is shaped by how they use and view their homes; and he rejects ideal lighting for the unpredictable changing light of day. The result is a valuable record of rapidly disappearing African architectural heritage.
