My name is Matthias Bruggmann.
I do photography.
As of late, I tend to spend quite a bit of time in Ukraine, and I will try to spend as much time as I can there and in Syria going forward.
The questions underlying my work center around a range of issues with photography, mostly around photography as a document, so things like the nature of photojournalism, the limits of the photographic image, the relationship between text and image, the relationship of photography to its history, the legitimacy of the image as document in the age of differential regimes of reality, the art-document dialectic or the position and utility of foreign witnesses in conflicts.
A few years ago, I won an award (http://prixelysee.ch/en/), and thanks to it, I made a book about the Syrian conflict (but not only).
It is called An Act of Unspeakable Violence / Un Acte d'une Violence Indicible. You can see what it looks like here: https://exb.fr/en/home/358-un-acte-d-une-violence-indicible-9782365111874.html.
My work respects the norms of press photography, and is regularly published as such in a range of outlets, which have included Le Monde, National Geographic, Paris Match, Spiegel, The Sunday Times and Time Magazine.
People have written about it, and I have spoken about it, and the issues around it.
Here are some of the most recent instances of that:
https://phmuseum.com/news/documenting-the-complexities-and-horrors-of-syrias-raging-war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWReK3oW2AY (with German subtitles)
https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-grande-table-1ere-partie/images-la-fin-de-la-neutralite (audio)
http://viensvoir.oai13.com/matthias-bruggmann-casse-codes-photojournalisme/
In the past, I have done other things with and around photography, and won other awards. The take home is that, if you can, you should support the Dr Hawa Abdi foundation (https://www.dhaf.org), in Syria, the White Helmets (https://www.whitehelmets.org/en/), and in Ukraine, civil society organisations.
Art world: Bernard Utudjian at Galerie Polaris - https://www.galeriepolaris.fr/contact/
Everyone else: Jeffrey Smith at Contact Press Images - http://contactpressimages.com/contactus.html