Jeffrey Ladd – The Awful German Language art theory full of unexpected details and

full of unexpected details and potential metaphor

one of aborted eternities and slackened certainties – to situations which reveal the disintegration of permanences

its rich scenery and with a raging past

what is the legacy of Tropicália today

street scenes and ephemera – comes together to form a poetic cadence

Jeffrey Ladd – The Awful German Language art theory full of unexpected details andIn 2011 the American photographer Jeffrey Ladd moved to Cologne, Germany, and began photographing his surroundings while learning the basics of the German language. In the process, he collected lists of interesting German vocabulary words (professions, places, things, common terms, and the outdated), which he juxtaposes with his black and white photographs; two different types of language one visual, one verbal describing a sense of his new home.