But somethings not quite right, and its not just the out-of-control kids that Jet has to live with, or the staff who look after the boarding house who act super suspiciously. When their Mom moves to another country to work on fixing the Millennium bug, Jet is forced to stay at a boarding house while they finish the school year, and theyre not pleased about it. In 1999, when most people think that the world is about to end with the Y2K crash on the eve of the new Millennium, Jet is just trying to get through high school.
The portrait is at the centre of her work.Paperback. Her themes are social exclusion, gender studies, psychological, social, illnessrelated crises and just plain „normal“ life. She works for magazines and companies in the field of portrait and social documentary photography, teaches photography at various universities and works continuously on freelance long-term projects that are exhibited internationally. Sibylle Fendt (*1974 in Karlsruhe) studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld and is a member of OSTKREUZ – Agentur der Fotografen. _:* Portraits of Artists provides a unique insight into the variety and diversity of contemporary artistic practice and introduces us to its representatives, who all too often operate away from the limelight. „My pictures depict personalities, not genders!“ says the photographer. Sibylle Fendt, however, does not want to place womanhood at the centre of her work, but rather a feminist positioning. Thus many of those portrayed are united by the fact that feminism and the breaking open of traditional gender roles play a central role in their live and occupation.
Her work began with an examination of the role of women in the art world. She skilfully transfers the traditional genre of artist portrait into the modern age with her medium-format camera and analogue film material: in bright colours, large-scale, simple or playful, using double exposures and deliberate staging, she explores the work of artists of different generations and backgrounds with sensitivity and great intensity. Since 2021, Berlin photographer Sibylle Fendt, herself a member of the renowned agency OSTKREUZ, has been portraying artists, actors, authors, musicians and filmmakers. Musician Peaches sits enthroned in front of a group of black dressmaker’s dummies thrown together, photographer Katharina Bosse lies in a bathtub in red light, as if in a darkroom, author Hengameh Yaghoobifarah leans back in an armchair in a tight-fitting dress, dancer Oska Borcherding performs on a flat roof, the Berlin skyline in the background, and actress Bettina Hoppe simply stands in her living room.
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