Essays List

Poem to a book no more

Photography for me is an expression of visual art combined with a non-traditional form of poetry . In French it is referred to as “vers libre”. My poem is to be imagined and experienced side by side with the photographs.

Transitions Later Before

Books can be transient. Of course many precious old volumes exist in the great libraries of the world. Others serve more limited a purpose and might hopefully be read before they are altered, burned or otherwise discarded.Words have liberated themselves from engravings, print editions or handwritten documents and are disspersed digitally now.

Harmonices Mundi

Looking at Karin Hillmer’s photographs will require you to slow down and look closer. Take your time. Relax. These photographs can speak to you, if you let them, for each image is a story in itself.
Tim Anderson, Publisher/Editor of Camera Arts Magazine, Jan/Feb 2007.

The Virtual You in a Me-World

In this series of photographs, a small piece of jewelry, a pendant in the shape of a small doll, becomes a surrogate for the human figure. The object and its environment are staged in a really small world in my studio.

Infinity & Dreams: photographs inspired by the short stories of J. L. Borges

This series of photographs is inspired by the short stories in Collected Fictions by the Argentine writer Jorge Louis Borges.

Artist Book

This small 3-of-a-kind harmonica book measures about 12 x 12 cm. Front and back covers are made of matting board covered with pages from an old book.

Artist Boxes

In 2015 I felt I had to rebalance my creative energies after the large project of Infinity & Dreams, both the series of photographs as well as the book.

Artist Mobile

Hand-made paper dresses have appeared frequently in my work over the last few years.