Tres Viajes
Jörg Brüggemann
Atelier EXB
French, English, Spanish, German
Hardcover
144 pages
228 × 320 mm
2025
ISBN 9782365114325
In Tres Viajes (Three Journeys), German photographer Jörg Brüggemann, director of the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin, explores Chile through three interconnected bodies of work that examine the complex relationships between people, memory, place, and distance.
The first series, Mi madre tiene novio (My Mother Has a Boyfriend, 2018), originates from a personal quest inspired by a dream. Ten years after his mother’s death, Brüggemann set out to follow a series of signs that appeared to him during sleep. Beginning in Chile and continuing across South America, the journey eventually led back to the place where he first learned of her passing. The resulting photographs reconstruct fragments of the dream, reflecting on loss, remembrance, and the enduring bond between mother and son.
Created one year later, El derecho de vivir en paz (The Right to Live in Peace, 2019) presents a very different Chile. Returning to the country during a period of intense social unrest, Brüggemann encountered a society shaken by widespread protests against political inequality and systemic injustice. The series offers an immersive and visceral account of a historic uprising, capturing the tension, violence, and collective energy that transformed the streets.
The final chapter, Agua que no has de beber (2022), follows the lives of a woman and a man separated by vast geographical distances: she lives on the Chilean coast, while he resides in the mountains. More contemplative in tone, the series evokes the strength of Chile’s natural landscape and the invisible connections that persist between individuals despite physical separation.
An accompanying text by Jörg Brüggemann, translated into French, English, Spanish, and German, brings together the three projects and concludes the book.
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About the Artist
Born in 1979 in Herne, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. In 2008 Jörg Brüggemann finished his photography studies under the guidance of professor Peter Bialobrzeski at the University of the Arts in Bremen. His diploma project “Same Same But Different” portrayed backpacking tourism in South Asia. Since then he works as a freelance photographer in Berlin and a year later he joined OSTKREUZ – Photographers’ Agency. In 2012 Jörg Brüggemann published his first monograph “Metalheads – The Global Brotherhood” with gestalten publisher and showed the project as a single exhibition at gestalten space in Berlin. He received numerous awards and grants including the BFF promtion prize 2009, a VG BildKunst grant, and an honorable mention at CENTER’s Project Competition 2009. He was a finalist at the MAGNUM Expression Award 2009 and a winner of PDN Photo Annual 2013. As a member of OSTKREUZ -Photographers’ Agency he recieved the Konrad-Wolf-Preis 2013.
https://www.joergbrueggemann.com
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About the Publisher
Atelier EXB publishes books taking a visual approach to the new shapes of photography, contemporary art and sciences. Founded in 2002 by Xavier Barral, and taken over in 2020 by the five members of the team (Jordan Alves, Nathalie Chapuis, Yseult Chehata, Charlotte Debiolles and Perrine Somma), the publishing house conceives each book where form and content meet to tell a singular history. Raising curiosity through the image and bringing one to discover new artistic voices, subjects in resonance with today’s world. What the photographic image says of our world? Atelier EXB is a space for creation, curiosity, and openness to the world.
https://www.setantabooks.com
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