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Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Photographer
Uta Genilke
KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)
Gomma Photography Grant 2025 Finalists

Gomma Photography Grant 2025

KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)

Photographer

Uta Genilke

KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer)

15 Feb, 2026

Come closer. Don’t be afraid. Look—this is my room, dark and warm. Nothing can harm you here. This is where we retreat, where we hide from the world. No one is watching. No one will find you. Breathe deeply. Sink slowly.KOMM NÄHER (Come Closer) is a meditation on intimacy and distance. Through a dark, poetic aesthetic, the series interweaves portraits of family members and strangers with fragments of interiors—rooms, houses, gardens. Seemingly contradictory elements—beauty and decay, reality and hallucination, trust and unease—merge within this quiet universe, where the fragile boundary between the familiar and the uncanny feels ready to dissolve.

About the photographer

Uta Genilke

I am a German photobook lover and collector, a graphic designer and self-taught photographer, working with snapshot photographs and archival material, transferring my dreams, longings and fears into books. During the last years I self-published 25 books and zines in mini editions. My work has been shown in group exhibitions and at international photobook festivals. SOMMERSPIELE, a book I made last year, is shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Award 2022 and currently on exhibition tour.