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Christian Lutz

Christian Lutz

In Jesus' Name

Name(n)

Christian Lutz (1973)

Website(s)

christianlutz.org

Instagram

@christianlutzphotography

Beschäftigung

100% photographer

Ausbildung

Bachelor, Ecole supérieure des Arts de l’Image Le 75, Brussels (BE), 1995

Titel

In Jesus’ Name

Entstehungsjahr

2013–2024

Entstehungsort

Switzerland

Entstehungskontext

Personal

Kollaborateur(e)

Pablo Lavalley

Gezeigtes Objekt(e)

Wallpapers

Maße

120 × 150 cm

Formate / Dauer

4 wallpapers (120 × 150 cm each)

Material(ien)

Blueback paper

Materiallieferant(en)

Photorotation, Geneva

With the agreement of the ICF church leaders, Christian Lutz photographed the congregation and its followers over the span of a year. 

A few days after his book In Jesus’ Name was published, a lawyer, hired by the ICF and representing 21 followers, protagonists in the photographs, filed a complaint and obtained an immediate ban on the book. Christian Lutz reacted by revisiting the banned photographs and delivering new images blacked out with thick banners. It is now impossible to recognise the faces. As an expression of prejudice, the text of the complaints filed by the plaintiffs is printed over this obliteration. From a work banned stems a new, even stronger one. In the urge to interpret images, one tends to project in them one’s own beliefs and doubts, and soon emerges the certainty of seeing in them what was feared.