Rainer Kersten photographs the world as he experiences it, attentive, patient, unhurried.

His images are not born from chasing but from waiting. He chooses a position, reads the space, and lets the image present itself.

Whether he stands waiting for a passerby in the streets of Aachen, sits with a piano teacher in the Heuvelland who plays a piece she learned sixty years ago, or builds light around two people in a studio, the method is always the same.

Light is not a technical tool but a sculpting medium. The human is rarely the only subject, a temporary presence in a space that already held them before they arrived and will outlast them.