Bearded rose friends

Renate Jebe

I love photographing people, especially their portraits I love PEOPLE, their faces, their hands. I love colours, contrasts. I love togetherness and yet diversity. People, faces, hands I have chosen black and white and hard contrasts, because nothing shows the lines that life has written in the individual´s faces more clearly. I show men of different ages with their different beards. Colours, contrasts The background and the clothing - both deliberately black and without structure - take a back seat, to draw the eye to the essentials: the head and the hand with the rose. In contradiction to the strong contrasts in black and white and to the lifelines stands the delicate, colourful blossom in its perfection and transience. Only a rose combines these strong contrasts: it shows hardness in its thorns and softness in itspetals, rounded off by its beguiling fragrance. These characteristics can also be found in the beards: initially prickly like the thorns, a beard also develops a certain softness. Variety In the headgear, in the way it is worn. The age structure, the different beards. I started the collection with my oldest sandpit friend. I finished it with my longest photo friend Common ground The rose as a constant connection. The colour of the flower in harmony with the headgear.

The Bearded rose friends photo album

Renate Jebe