Text & Texture – a collaboration between Bastien Pons and Ivan Lotzer
What happens when words and images emerge from the same silence? In this poetic collaboration, photographer Bastien Pons and writer Ivan Lotzer create works that blur the line between photography and literature — where each image resonates with a voice, and each word carries visual weight.
Rather than illustrating one another, their respective contributions form a dialogue of atmospheres. Ivan Lotzer’s texts — brief, elliptical, often metaphysical — are not captions but echoes, written in response to Bastien Pons’ black-and-white photographs. In turn, the images are chosen or composed with the texture of language in mind: empty rooms, blurred outlines, quiet objects charged with emotion.
The result is a hybrid art form that lies somewhere between the photobook, the poem, and the visual journal. It invites slow reading and close looking — an experience where meaning unfolds through layers, suggestion, and silence.
Ideal for lovers of literary photography, text-image art, and introspective storytelling, this collaboration offers a meditative space where perception is fractured, stitched, and made luminous.
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