National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024 Finalist
Katrin Koenning
born Germany 1978, Australia from 2003
Reinhold 2023
pigment photographic print on paper
‘In May 2023, Papa caught a plane to see me in Naarm/Melbourne for one day and one night. We looked at art, walked a little, ate, took trams and sat by the river. It was the first time he had come to visit on his own since losing Sharon, his partner of 23 years.’
Katrin Koenning is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist who uses photography as an encounter to explore relationships. Pursuing intimacy and interconnection, Koenning uses fragments and slippages to suggest narrative spaces and communities that are fluid and multifaceted.