Petra Dachtler
Travelling is my passion - photography has developed alongside. When I travel I have the leisure to wander around with an open mind observing the life around. Through my photographs I try to transmit the impression a certain place or atmosphere leaves on me - deserted or with its people in their daily routines.
From 2014-2017 my home was in Tunisia where I had my first solo exhibition dedicated to the often neglected interior of that fascinating country in transition. After my return to Berlin, the pictures were shown in different places in Germany and a photobook was published in 2019. It can be purchased here.
Having the privilege to work and live in different countries, the focus of my work is travel photography, but recently I also experimented with portraits and story telling in my home town in Germany. here.
Exhibitions
Solo
Group
Stadt - Land - Tunesien
House of the Bavarian Economy, Munich
November, 2019
Internationaler Club e.V. at the German Foreign Office, Berlin
October 2018
Bürgersaal, commune Wennigsen / Hannover
April - May 2018
Deutsch-Arabische Freundschaftsgesellschaft e.V., Berlin
February - March 2018
Tunisia Inside Out
Musée de la ville de Tunis (Palais Kheireddine), Tunis, May 2017
DRIFT
Works of the seminar at the Osktreuzschule Berlin with Ina Schönenburg
with photographs from my project Alexandrowka
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, February 2020
Footprints - nachhaltige Geschichten
Documentary photography on climate, energy, sustainability featuring
Tropical Potsdam
Kunstmarkthalle, Berlin, February - April 2020
Medina - tradition, heritage and identity
Musée de la ville de Tunis (Palais Kheireddine), Tunis, May 2016
Press
