Flowers Gallery exhibits Michael Wolf`s very first complete photographic series: Bottrop-Ebel 76
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Flowers Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Hong Kong-based German photographer Michael Wolf, revisiting his very first complete photographic series. Bottrop-Ebel 76 is a series of photographs taken by Wolf in a small coal mining village in the Ruhr District, Germany in 1976, while he was still a student at the Folkswangschule für Gestaltung. Wolf sought to capture the collective identity of the community, documenting their way of life in a changing industrial region, where the future was looking uncertain and unemployment was on the rise. He returned often to the district during a year of intensive research, even living there for a time, in order to get closer to his subject matter. The project marked the beginning of Wolf’s interest in socially engaged documentary photography, which has centred throughout his work on the lives of people drawn together in urban cities. In Bottrop-Ebel, Wolf photographed the public liv