Anna Aicher
Like Father, Like Son
Anna Aicher is a collector - she collects impressions of people. She captures moments in her photographs that show how tradition is lived by the young today. Her photographs allow a direct look at the interface between Bavarian customs and youth culture.
Anna Aicher returns time and again to rural areas where she also grew up, taking us to places and people of her childhood and youth.
The work "Like Father, Like Son" is a photographic examination of one´s own origins, the concepts of home and tradition, as well as a reflection on leaving and arriving. Anna Aicher has photographed rural youth in various customs associations and rural subcultures in southern Bavaria and Austria. She creates calm, concentrated images and enters into an intensive dialogue with her protagonists so that a special intimacy becomes visible. Only in this way is it understandable that the people often present themselves in an alienated environment that does not allow the existing cliché of customary associations to emerge. What is depicted is the process of transformation from youth to adult, the transition of the past into the present. The faces and poses of the young people reflect this uncertainty and expectation that accompany the process of growing up.