Markus Brunetti
, Bavaria, Germany — Lives and works in a roving van as a constant traveller with no fixed address
Since 2005, Markus Brunetti and his partner Betty Schöner have been hard at work making photographic works of the façades of holy houses all over Europe. They are on the road for much of the year, travelling by truck with their equipment in a type of mobile lab outfitted with the latest technology. They have no overall system, no fixed agenda. The project proceeds on a case-by-case basis. It has already encompassed architecture from many periods and styles: Moorish, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque. Some are typical examples, some are more singular, and some are hybrids of various influences.
About Markus Brunetti
It is an unending project and ongoing creation for the history of humanity as expressed through the creation of architectural monuments. Brunetti and Schöner strive to achieve a balanced maximum of variety and diversity by carefully selecting the churches following research in books, libraries, and online. However, the resulting wish list is sometimes deviated from by suggestions from residents or by unexpected structures along the route.
This project, which was given the appropriate name of FACADES, is both a tribute of the past and a testament to technology to preserve these marvels with never-before-seen detail through the eyes of Brunetti and Schöner. The final single image in the frame isn't a single image at all, it consists of thousands of individual photographs, delicately stitched together in a collective work that defies genre categorisation.