Cat on a leash
Ronja Falkenbach
2018 — Seoul, South Korea
About this series
“Cat on a leash” documents the lively subculture of electronic music in Seoul. I show the threshold moments between consciousness and intoxication of a young Korean generation. It is a generation that has set itself apart, in terms of musical taste, from the usual commercial K-pop, and broken out of the traditional roles that Korean society would assign it. In a country where school and work life are highly hierarchical and rigid, and where the pressure to succeed is intense, techno music is an escape from social conventions and norms.
Photographer: Ronja Falkenbach
Nationality: German
Based in: Berlin, Germany
Website: www.ronjafalkenbach.de
Instagram: @ronja_falkenbach
Ronja Falkenbach *1989 is a photographer based in Berlin and Koblenz. Educated at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld (Germany), Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (Israel), and Chung-Ang University, Seoul (South Korea).
Her interest in issues revolving around intimacy and themes emerging from it, working in documentary photography at the performative intersection. This performativity is drawn from the empathic relationship that she develops during her projects with the individuals of her photographs.
Social Networks as Instagram, Tinder or Couchsurfing are building the base of her research into subcultures in different locations and serve as a performative tool to connect body and place. Actions in front and behind the camera intertwine and through that the work is referring to herself, even if she never appears in the photographs. Truth as the base of the documentary photography is blurred with fiction, memories are constructed or true and start or end her psychological and existential journey.
05/2020 – 08/2020
Assistance, Verena Brüning, Paula Winkler, Berlin, DE
05/2020 – 08/2020
Assistance, Anne Schönharting, Tobias Kruse, Jordis Schlösser, Berlin, DE
03/2020 – 08/2020
Internship at OSTKREUZ agency, Berlin, DE
02/2019 – 07/2019
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Department of Photography, IS
Erasmus+ Israel, Yaakov Israel, Uri Gershuni
02/2018 – 07/2018
중앙대학교 Chung-Ang University Seoul, Department of Art, KOR
DAAD Promos Scholarship, Sasscha Pohle
11/2018
OSTKREUZ Workshop, Christian Pankratz
University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, DE
01/2018
Architecture photography – Workshop, Daniel Mire
University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, DE
11/2017
Bildredaktion: Bild im Kontext – Workshop, Ute Noll
University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, DE